偷日记的佛罗里达女人属于乔·拜登总统的女儿并将其出售给“真理工程”,周二被判处一个月监禁,随后三年监督释放。
法官劳拉·泰勒·斯温在原定宣判日期的两个月后做出了判决,艾米·哈里斯因为说自己生病而错过了宣判日期。
这一判决比检察官要求的更严厉,尽管他们确实指控她破坏了政治进程。
检察官在一份判决备忘录中表示:“她错误地利用自己的身体接触了某个人的私人物品,她本人并不认识这个人,但作为一名公众人物,她知道这个人的财产将获得可观的价格。”“窃取候选人家庭成员的个人物品,并将其出售给一个组织以利用它们获取政治利益,无论政治议程如何,都是错误和非法的。”
检察官说,艾什莉·拜登2020年一直住在佛罗里达州德尔雷海滩的一个朋友家,但她在当年6月搬走时留下了一些个人物品。房子的主人允许她将物品留在房子里。
根据联邦检察官的说法,哈里斯在拜登离开时搬进了房间,发现了这些物品,并与另一名被告罗伯特·库兰德合谋出售这些物品。起初,他们将这些材料提供给特朗普竞选团队,但遭到拒绝。然后他们决定将这些物品出售给极右翼激进组织“真理工程”。
2022年8月,哈里斯和库兰德对一项共谋指控认罪,承认他们收到了真理项目支付的2万美元。
Florida woman sentenced to a month in prison for theft of Ashley Biden's diary
The Florida woman who stole a diarybelonging to President Joe Biden's daughterand sold it to Project Veritas was sentenced Tuesday to one month in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain imposed the sentence two months after the original sentencing date that Aimee Harris missed because she said she was ill.
The sentence is harsher than what prosecutors had sought, although they did accuse her of undermining the political process.
"She wrongfully exploited her physical access to the intimate belongings of someone whom she did not know personally, but knew as a public figure who whose property would fetch a handsome price tag," prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum. "Stealing personal belongings of a candidate's family member, and selling them to an organization to exploit them for political gain, was wrong and illegal no matter the political agenda."
Ashley Biden had been living at a friend's house in Delray Beach, Florida in 2020, but left a number of personal belongings behind when she moved out in June of that year, prosecutors said. The owner of the home allowed her to keep the items at the house.
According to federal prosecutors, Harris moved into the room when Biden left, discovered the items and conspired with another defendant, Robert Kurlander, to sell them. At first, they offered the materials to the Trump campaign, which declined. Then they decided to sell the items to far-right activist group Project Veritas.
Harris and Kurlander pleaded guilty in August 2022 to a conspiracy charge, admitting they received $20,000 that was paid by Project Veritas.