The Florida woman who stole Ashley Biden’s diary and sold it to a conservative news website for $40,000 before the 2020 election has been jailed for a month.
Aimee Harris, 41, swiped through the diary while staying with Joe Biden’s daughter at her residence in Delray Beach, Florida, in 2020.
She later asked Robert Kurlander to help her sell the stolen material in an effort to make the private material public.
The couple later sold it to Project Veritas, a conservative news outlet, for $20,000 each, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
A tearful Harris apologized to the court, while a judge called her actions “despicable” and told her to report to prison in July.
Aimee Harris, the woman who stole Ashley Biden’s diary and sold it to a conservative news website for $40,000, has been jailed for a month. She is pictured leaving Manhattan federal court after the verdict is handed down
Both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property interstate in August 2022, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
A federal judge sentenced Harris on Tuesday to one month in prison and three months of house arrest.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York called Harris’ conduct “despicable” and “very serious.”
She will then be on supervised release for three years and must also forfeit the $20,000 she received from the sale of the diary.
In a statement to the court, Mrs. Biden called the theft a “heinous form of bullying.”
Ashley Biden, the only child from Joe Biden’s marriage to First Lady Jill Biden, left the private diary at a home in Palm Beach, Florida after moving to Philadelphia in June 2020.
Harris stole the diary while staying with Joe Biden’s daughter at her residence in Delray Beach, Florida, in 2020. She later asked Robert Kurlander to help her sell the stolen material.
Robert Kurlander and Harris admitted that they participated in a conspiracy to transport stolen materials — including the diary — from Florida, where Biden had lived, to New York, where they attempted to sell them.
“I don’t believe I’m above the law,” Harris said after a prosecutor pushed for a prison sentence after she failed to appear on numerous sentencing dates because she was preoccupied with caring for her two children, ages eight and six. .
“I am a survivor of long-term domestic violence and sexual trauma,” she told the judge.
Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of between four and 10 months.
