The criminal charges are the first to emerge from a federal investigation into how, prior to the 2020 presidential election, the journal reached the ...
A lawyer for the group, Paul Calli, defended its actions in connection with the diary and suggested that charges against it or its personnel would be unwarranted. It has to be done a different way,” Kurlander texted to Harris, according to the filing. The information suggests that Project Veritas officials should have realized at a September 2020 meeting with the defendants in New York that the diary was stolen. “They want it to go to the FBI. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement. In a Manhattan federal court hearing on Thursday, Aimee Harris, 40, of Palm Beach and Robert Kurlander, 58, of Jupiter each pleaded guilty to a single conspiracy charge stemming from their involvement in selling the journal, the U.S.
Two people who sold Ashley Biden's journal and other items to Project Veritas pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Thursday.
Days later, they sent photos of some of Biden's belongings to Project Veritas. "They are in a sketchy business and here they are taking what's literally a stolen diary and info . They want it to go to the FBI. [Ashley Biden] can easily be thinking all her stuff is there and not concerned about it. It has to be done a different way..." In September 2020, Harris moved into a Delray Beach, Florida, home where the daughter of now-President Joe Biden had recently lived and temporarily stored some personal belongings.
Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander admitted to participating in a conspiracy in which Ashley Biden's diary ended up in the hands of the conservative group ...
Harris and Mr. Mr. Ms. searched the home of Spencer Meads, a confidant of Mr. Kurlander texted Ms. Project Veritas paid for the pair to go to New York and stay at a luxury hotel, prosecutors said. She told Mr. And it has put Mr. After Ms. “They sold the property to an organization in New York for $40,000 and even returned to take more of the victim’s property when asked to do so,” Mr. Prosecutors directly tied Project Veritas to the theft of Ms. Trump tried to use the diary to undercut Mr.
A stolen diary belonging to Ashley Biden, daughter of President Joe Biden, was shopped to the Trump campaign, which passed on buying it, court records say.
Project Veritas CEO James O'Keefe, in a statement issued at that time, said that the organization had been approached by people offering it the Biden diary. The charging document says the father of the theft's victim was a "then-former government official who was a candidate for national office." They want it to go to the FBI. It has to be done a different way." That fundraiser is understood to be one held for then-President Kurlander as part of his plea in U.S.
A West Palm Beach woman discovered items Ashley Biden left in a Delray Beach home. A Jupiter man said he'd help her sell them. Then they were caught.
Two days after Biden moved out, Harris moved in and discovered the diaries, court records show. Instead, Kurlander reached out to the unidentified organization. In a statement, the news site denied wrongdoing. When she discovered the cache of personal items, Harris contacted Kurlander. "Omg,” Harris texted Kurlander before the fundraiser. O’Keefe has railed against the FBI since his home and those of other journalists who work for him were raided by agents in 2021 as part of the investigation into the diary. I can't wait to show you what Mama has to bring Papa." Department of Justice, the buyer is referred to only as an “Organization” based in Mamaroneck, N.Y. The victim is simply described as “an immediate family member of a then-former government official who was a candidate for national political office.” Entries from the diary were published shortly before the November 2020 presidential election by the National File, a right-wing news website. When Project Veritas refused to publish the diary, the whistleblower brought it to the National File, it wrote. A West Palm Beach woman discovered items Ashley Biden left in a Delray Beach home.
Aimee Harris and Jonathan Kurlander admitted to stealing the diary from a home in Delray Beach and then selling it to Project Veritas for $40000, ...
Harris and Kurlander sought to profit from their theft of another person’s personal property, and they now stand convicted of a federal felony as a result.” 10, 2020, Harris and Kurlander contacted Project Veritas and engaged in discussions to sell the material. They ultimately did so for $40,000 and then attempted to take more at Project Veritas’ direction, according to prosecutors. Kurlander said he would help her “make a S--T TON of money” from selling the property, according to court documents. The stolen items are identified in court papers as the “personal belongings of an immediate family member of a then-former government official who was a candidate for national political office.” It did not acknowledge the $40,000 payment.
DOJ announced two Florida residents pleaded guilty to stealing the diary of President Biden's daughter, Ashley, and selling them to Project Veritas ahead of ...
I’d like to thank the Public Corruption Units at both the FBI’s New York Office and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for their dedicated effort in this case." "As a consequence of their actions, they now face punishment in the federal criminal justice system for their crimes. Harris and Kurlander pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. "They sold the property to an organization in New York for $40,000 and even returned to take more of the victim’s property when asked to do so. Ultimately, they were compensated $20,000 for the stolen property, according to the Justice Department. [Mamaroneck, New York,](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/new-york) which instructed them to use an encrypted application to send photos of the items stolen from Biden’s daughter.