The two thieves are accused of trying to sell the diary to Donald Trump’s campaign team, who allegedly rejected their offer.
Two Florida residents have pleaded guilty in the 2020 theft of the diary of Ashley Biden, daughter of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, revealed Thursday the New York Times.
Earlier in the day, a statement from the New York Southern District Attorney’s Office announced that Aimee Harris, 40, and Robert Kurlander, 58, “pleaded guilty today to the interstate transportation of stolen property involving the theft of personal effects of an immediate family member of a then former senior government official who was a candidate in a national election”.
Among the stolen personal effects, the press release, which does not identify Ashley Biden by name, lists in particular a handwritten diary, a memory card containing family photos and a cell phone.
The daughter of the current president had left her personal effects in the spring of 2020 with a friend in Florida, with whom Aimee Harris then stayed.
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The two suspects are accused of trying to sell the diary to Donald Trump’s campaign team, who allegedly rejected their offer. They then turned to Project Veritas, an ultra-conservative group known for its support of the Republican billionaire and for its publicity stunts involving the disclosure of personal data.
An FBI investigation was triggered when the conservative site National File published the contents of the diary that included personal details from Ashley Biden’s life. National File claims to have obtained the documents from someone within Project Veritas.
In October 2020, just before the presidential election, another child of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, found himself involved in a leak of personal documents.
