Project Veritas - O'Keefe Media Group (OMG) - James Edward O'Keefe III

[Rolodex]

She's not gonna show up. She'll be prevented by the eclipse.

[Rolodex]

Surprise! She showed up! Sentencing is underway. Live thread from @innercitypress

[bob]

AP: Florida woman is sentenced to a month in jail for selling Biden’s daughter’s diary:

A Florida mother was sentenced Tuesday to a month in prison and three months of home confinement for stealing and selling President Joe Biden’s daughter’s diary four years ago to the conservative group Project Veritas.

Aimee Harris was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who called the Palm Beach, Florida, woman’s actions “despicable.”

Harris pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in August 2022, admitting that she received $20,000 of the $40,000 that was paid by Project Veritas for personal items belonging to the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden.

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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.

[pipistrelle]

Florida mother

How is this relevant?

[raison de arizona]

Florida mother

How is this relevant?

Her argument all along has been that she can't attend the trial or participate at all really because she is a mother.

[bob]

Harris pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in August 2022, admitting that she received $20,000 of the $40,000 that was paid by Project Veritas for personal items belonging to the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden.

Snopes has changed the wording and updated its article on the diary to "true":

Snopes: Did Ashley Biden Call Childhood Showers with Her Father 'Probably Inappropriate' in Leaked Diary?:

"I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online," Ashley Biden wrote to a district court judge.

Claim:

A diary authored by U.S. President Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden, describes showers taken with her father when she was a child as "probably not appropriate."

True.

Note: On April 29, 2024, Snopes changed the rating of this fact check from "Unproven" to "True" based on testimony provided by Ashley Biden. In an April 8 letter to a New York judge requesting jail time for one of the two people convicted of stealing her diary, Biden wrote, "I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online."

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An often cited page from that "leaked diary," which chronicled its author's addiction recovery in intimate detail, makes reference to sexual trauma and poses questions in search of an explanation for being "hyper-sexualized @ a young age." Along with mentions of not liking to visit a certain family's house, "being sexualized" with a female friend, and "having sex with friends @ a young age," the author noted taking "showers with my dad (probably not appropriate)."

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In April 2024, the New York Times published a letter that Ashley Biden wrote to the Judge in Harris' case as part of her sentencing process in which Biden referenced the harm caused by the publication of photographs of her journal online, confirming that the words published online were hers while noting that they have been misinterpreted:

After being the victim of a crime in my early twenties, I developed PTSD. The journal that was stolen was part of my efforts to heal.

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Although this criminal act happened more than three years ago, because of the publicity it drew—exactly as Ms. Harris intended—I am constantly re-traumatized by it. I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online.

Repeatedly, I hear others grossly misinterpret my once-private writings and lob false accusations that defame my character and those of the people I love.

In other words, Snopes reads her letter as implicitly confirming the existence of the contents (that are routinely misinterpreted).

[Ben-Prime]

In other words, Snopes reads her letter as implicitly confirming the existence of the contents (that are routinely misinterpreted).

That's a too-generous reading by them, IMNSHO. It would be like saying that because Hunter Biden might confirm a laptop was stolen and that this is the very laptop that was stolen, everything cited as being from the hard drive of that laptop by some other party was a) on that hard drive, b) placed there by Hunter, and c) undoctored.

I'm not saying Snopes is wrong. I'm saying I don't see any way to say that they are right.

[MN-Skeptic]

LONG article - I haven't read it yet - in Rolling Stone magazine -

Inside the Rise and Fall of Project Veritas

Subtitle - James O’Keefe helped transform U.S. conservatism into a war machine — then it all imploded

[bob]

Law & Crime: Ashley Biden diary thief gets to start her prison sentence a day early after being busted for speeding with marijuana and an open container:

The Florida woman who stole and sold a diary belonging to President Joe Biden‘s daughter Ashley Biden was arrested on Monday just a day before she was to begin serving a monthlong sentence in jail for the theft.

According to prosecutors in New York, Aimee Harris is now facing a variety of new charges in Georgia where she was arrested on July 8 in McIntosh County for driving with a suspended license, speeding, possession of an open container, possession of marijuana and obstruction of a law enforcement officer. As a result of the nascent charges, Harris was detained and put under arrest and then transferred to the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

[RVInit]

The prosecutors kept recommending that ID card to her, but she's been "sick," and the next appointment to get an ID from the state was well after her court appearance today. Plus she says she doesn't have any documents to get an ID with. What a mess.

Yeah, the voter ID laws in Florida are biting her in the butt. It's a serious pain in the ass to get ID in Florida now. The list of items you have to bring with you is enormous. And if you a woman who got married and took your husband's last name it's even worse because now your name on all your documents doesn't match your birth certificate and your application for someone to pull a copy of your marriage license is on a stack of millions of other women who need that same documentation. So, she's getting bitten in the ass by the legislation she probably drooled over because "it's just saying you have to show ID, how can anyone be against THAT?"

[Slim Cognito]

I kept my maiden name when I married D. When I divorced my first husband and took my maiden name back it reminded me of what a pain in the ass it is to change your name, change your Social Security card, credit cards, loans and other legal documents. Whoever dreamed that shit up can bite me. We're not chattel. I'm not a home built bike that requires proof of every purchased part before I can be licensed at the DMV.

Thank dog I did keep my maiden name as when I moved to Florida. Not only would they have asked for proof of my marriage to Dennis, they would've wanted the marriage license and divorce decree from the previous marriage.