Florida mom who stole, sold Ashley Biden diary sentenced to month in prison

The Florida mother who admitted to stealing and selling first daughter Ashley Biden’s diary was sentenced to one month in federal prison and three months of house arrest Tuesday.

Aimee Harris, 41, was also ordered to fork over $20,000 and serve three years of probation for what Manhattan Chief US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain called a “despicable” act.

Harris, of Palm Beach, apologized for allowing Ashley’s private writings to be sold after she found the journal and other items at a friend’s home in Delray Beach in 2020. Prosecutors said the Biden daughter, now 42, had stored the items at the residence while staying there.

“I do not believe I am above the law,” Harris said through tears after a prosecutor urged a longer prison sentence, citing the defendant’s failure to show up for several court dates.

Harris, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property in August 2022, had requested the sentencing hearing be moved a dozen times, claiming she was taking care of her two children, aged 8 and 6.

“I’m a survivor of long-term domestic abuse and sexual trauma,” Harris told Swain as Ashley Biden’s attorney looked on.

In her plea, Harris copped to getting half of the $40,000 paid by conservative activist group Project Veritas for the diary.

The outlet did not publish the contents of the journal, but purported entries later emerged online.

While passing sentence, Swain noted that Harris and co-defendant Robert Kurlander initially tried unsuccessfully to sell Ashley’s belongings to former President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.

Manhattan federal prosecutors had initially sought a sentence of six months of home confinement followed by three years of supervised release, before revising the request last week to between four and 10 months in prison, citing the repeated delays.

Judge Swain said that Harris, apart from being motivated by greed, had hoped to impact the 2020 election result.

Defense attorney Anthony Cecutti requested no prison time, citing his client’s traumatic life and her efforts to care for her children while recovering from abuse and violence.

“She carries the shame and stigma of her actions,” he said.

But Assistant US Attorney Robert Sobelman argued Harris had shown a “pattern of disrespect for the law and the justice system” and wanted “to make as much money as she could”.

“Ms. Harris is not the victim in this case,” Sobelman said. “Ms. Biden is the victim in this case.”

The prosecutor said Harris also stole a digital memory card belonging to the first daughter, along with books, clothing, luggage and “everything she could get her hands on.”

Harris, who declined to comment as she left the courthouse, will commence her prison sentence in July. Kurlander’s sentence is still pending.

With Post Wires