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Woman who stole Ashley Biden’s diary is sentenced to a month in prison

April 9, 2024 at 11:17 p.m. EDT
Aimee Harris, left, walks out of a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday after being sentenced to a month in prison for stealing and selling President Biden’s daughter’s diary in 2020. (Larry Neumeister/AP)
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After more than a year of delays, a Florida woman was sentenced Tuesday to one month in prison and three years of probation for stealing and selling President Biden’s daughter’s diary, portions of which were made public shortly before the 2020 general election.

Aimee Harris, 41, pleaded guilty in 2022 to providing Ashley Biden’s personal belongings to the conservative group Project Veritas for $20,000. The nonprofit organization is known for deceptive tactics in targeting what it says is liberal bias in the mainstream media, including an attempt to infiltrate The Washington Post in 2017.