In a letter sent yesterday to U.S. District Judge Laura Swain, federal prosecutors requested 4 to 10 months of prison for Aimee Harris after she skipped a sentencing hearing last week. In August 2022, Harris pleaded guilty to charges of theft and the sale of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley.
After previously requesting house arrest, prosecutors stated in the letter to Swain, “Based upon all the information currently available to the Government, and in accordance with the sentencing factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), the Government submits that the Court should impose a sentence within the applicable Guidelines range of 4 to 10 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release.”
FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll stated in a DOJ press release, “As they’ve admitted with today’s pleas, the defendants conspired to steal an individual’s personal property, which they subsequently sold to a third party and delivered across state lines. As a consequence of their actions, they now face punishment in the federal criminal justice system for their crime.”
Harris and Robert Kurlander sold the diary to Project Veritas, and were each paid $20,000. The diary allegedly contain accounts of “showers with my dad (probably not appropriate)”; “Was I molested. I think so — I can’t remember”; and other accounts of childhood trauma.
