Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The woman who admitted to stealing Ashley Biden's diary and selling it to conservative activists is facing arrest after skipping her sentencing, a federal judge said on Wednesday. Aimee Harris was supposed to be sentenced in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. Her lawyers had earlier told U.S. District Judge Laura Swain that the Florida resident was "unable" to attend because of "childcare and other issues."Harris and another Florida resident, Robert Kurlander, pleaded guilty on August 25, 2022 to conspiring to commit interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with Ashley Biden's diary. Harris enlisted Kurlander to help sell the diary, Ashley Biden's family photos, and other items to the conservative activist group Project Veritas, which paid them $20,000 each, the papers show.
A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced a Florida woman on Tuesday to a month in prison for her role in a brazen scheme to steal the diary of President Biden's daughter and sell it to a right-wing group in the hope of disrupting the 2020 election.
The conduct of the woman, Aimee Harris, "was despicable and consequently very serious," Judge Laura Taylor Swain of Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York said before handing down a punishment.
Ms. Harris, 41, tested the patience of prosecutors and the judge overseeing the case, missing repeated sentencing dates and jeopardizing what otherwise appeared to be a likely path to probation. In August 2022, she pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport the stolen diary to New York, where she met with employees of the group, Project Veritas, and sold it for $40,000 just weeks before the election.
A tearful Harris apologized for enabling Ashley Biden's private writings to be sold after she found the diary and other items at a friend's Delray Beach, Florida home in 2020, where prosecutors said Ashley Biden believed her items were safely stored after she temporarily stayed there in spring 2020.
"I do not believe I am above the law," Harris said after a prosecutor urged a prison sentence following her failure to appear at numerous sentencing dates on the grounds that she was consumed with caring for her two children, ages 8 and 6. "I'm a survivor of long term domestic abuse and sexual trauma," she told the judge.
White women always play the victim when they have to be accountable for their actions. I do not care if she was domestically abused and has sexual trauma. She deservers more of it, because what she endured obviously was not enough for her to grow as a person.