DOJ seeks jail time for woman who stole Ashley Biden’s diary

The Department of Justice has requested prison time for the woman who found first daughter Ashley Biden’s diary in a Florida home several years ago.

Aimee Harris, 42, pleaded guilty in August 2022 to selling that diary to Project Veritas for $40,000 ahead of the 2020 election. Veritas didn’t publish the diary and instead turned it over to authorities.

Harris’ sentencing has been delayed for years, and now the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is asking for four to 10 months in prison, the New York Post reported. The DOJ had previously requested six months of home confinement followed by three years of probation.

Harris has sought to move her sentencing date 12 times, prosecutors have said, which led them to request a harsher sentence.

“The defendant’s sentence must also account for the manner in which she has abused the administration of justice throughout the pendency of this court proceeding,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a recent filing.

“The defendant has repeatedly and consistently engaged in tactics to improperly delay this proceeding, including by misleading the Court with false information to justify belated and unmerited requests for adjournments, refusing to appear when directed, and failing to comply with court orders to disclose or produce certain information,” Williams added.

“Through this pattern of behavior, the defendant has shown a complete disregard for the Court’s orders and for the orderly administration of this judicial proceeding,” Williams wrote.

Harris found the diary while temporarily living at a home in Delray, Florida, where then-candidate Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley previously lived. Ashley left the diary, tax records, a digital storage drive containing family photos, a cell phone, and more on the property, with plans to return to pick up those items.

Harris took the diary and recruited Robert Kurlander to help her sell it to Project Veritas. While Project Veritas never published the diary, sections of it did later leak online. Project Veritas employees had their homes raided due to the diary, which attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and other First Amendment proponents argued was unconstitutional.

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Williams argued in his most recent sentencing request that a “sentence involving no period of incarceration would be wholly insufficient to reflect the gravity of the defendant’s conduct, including her apparent belief that she is above the law and that she need not comply with this Court’s orders.”

Williams also said that if Harris doesn’t appear for her sentencing on April 9, he would seek to add an obstruction of justice charge to her indictment.

Kurlander, who also pleaded guilty, will be sentenced on April 12.