Aimee Harris, who stole Ashley Biden's diary and sold it to Project Veritas, received a one-month prison sentence and three months of home confinement after pleading guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property. The court ordered her to forfeit $20,000 received for the diary. Harris and co-defendant Robert Kurlander tried to sell the diary to Donald Trump's campaign before approaching Project Veritas. FBI agents searched Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe's home as part of the investigation, but O'Keefe and Project Veritas were not charged. The diary, allegedly detailing Ms. Biden's substance addiction recovery, was not published by Project Veritas.
The Department of Justice is seeking four to 10 months of prison time for Aimee Harris, who stole Ashley Biden's diary and sold it to a conservative news site. Harris and Robert Kurlander pleaded guilty to conspiracy and sold the diary to Project Veritas for $20,000 each. Prosecutors want prison time due to Harris's repeated excuses to skip court hearings, including inadequate alibis and failure to comply with court orders. The diary contained personal documents, and the DOJ argues for a harsh sentence to deter law-breaking behavior.
Aimee Harris, a Florida mother, has been sentenced to one month in prison and three months of home confinement for the theft and sale of President Joe Biden's daughter's diary, an incident that occurred four years ago in New York.
Project Veritas is an American far-right activist group founded by James O'Keefe in 2010. The group produces deceptively edited videos of its undercover operations, which use secret recordings in an effort to discredit mainstream media organizations and progressive groups. Project Veritas also uses entrapment to generate bad publicity for its targets, and has propagated disinformation and conspiracy theories in its videos and operations.Project Veritas's targets include Planned Parenthood, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), NPR, CNN, and The Washington Post. In 2009, Project Veritas associates published misleading videos that depicted ACORN employees providing advice on concealing illegal activity, causing ACORN to shut down after losing funding; the Attorney General of California cleared ACORN of wrongdoing in 2010, and the associates paid a total of $150,000 in settlements to an ACORN employee who sued for defamation. NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned in 2013 after Project Veritas released a deceptively edited video portraying another NPR executive making controversial comments about the Tea Party movement and NPR's federal funding. Project Veritas unsuccessfully attempted to mislead The Washington Post into publishing false information about the Roy Moore sexual misconduct allegations in 2017; the Post won a Pulitzer Prize after uncovering the operation. In 2022, a jury awarded $120,000 against Project Veritas for fraudulent misrepresentation of the nonprofit Democracy Partners.As a non-governmental organization, Project Veritas is financed by conservative fund Donors Trust (which provided over $6.6 million from 2011 to 2019) and other supporters, including the Donald J. Trump Foundation. In 2020, The New York Times published an exposé detailing Project Veritas's use of spies recruited by Erik Prince to infiltrate "Democratic congressional campaigns, labor organizations and other groups considered hostile to the Trump agenda". The Times piece notes O'Keefe's and Prince's close links to the Trump administration, and details contributions such as a $1 million transfer of funds from an undisclosed source to support their work. The findings were based in part on discovery documents in a case brought by the American Federation of Teachers, Michigan, which had been infiltrated by Project Veritas.The organization's board fired O'Keefe in February 2023 for what it said was financial malfeasance with donor money. In September 2023, Project Veritas suspended all operations after laying off most of its employees. In December of the same year, Hannah Giles, who succeeded O'Keefe as CEO of the organization, resigned.
James Edward O'Keefe III (born June 28, 1984) is an American political activist who founded Project Veritas, a far-right activist group that uses deceptively edited videos and information gathering techniques to attack mainstream media organizations and progressive groups. Both O'Keefe and Project Veritas have produced secretly recorded undercover audio and video encounters in academic, governmental, and social service organizations, purporting to show abusive or illegal behavior by representatives of those organizations; the recordings are often selectively edited to misrepresent the context of the conversations and the subjects' responses. O'Keefe served as chairman until he was fired from the organization in February 2023.O'Keefe first gained national attention for his selectively edited video recordings of workers at Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) offices in 2009, his arrest and misdemeanor guilty plea in 2010 for entering the federal office of then-U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) under false pretenses, and the release of misleading videos of conversations with two high-ranking, now former, NPR executives in 2011.When his videos – heavily edited to portray ACORN workers seemingly aiding a couple in criminal planning – were publicized, the U.S. Congress voted to freeze funds for the non-profit. The national controversy resulted in the non-profit also losing most of its private funding before investigations of the videos concluded no illegal activity occurred. In March 2010, ACORN was close to bankruptcy and had to close or rename most of its offices. Shortly thereafter, the California State Attorney General's Office and the US Government Accountability Office released their related investigative reports. The Attorney General's Office found that O'Keefe had misrepresented the actions of ACORN workers in California and that the workers had not broken any laws. A preliminary probe by the GAO found that ACORN had managed its federal funds appropriately. One of the fired ACORN workers sued O'Keefe for invasion of privacy; O'Keefe issued an apology and agreed to pay $100,000 in a settlement.O'Keefe has gained support from right-wing and conservative media and interest groups, as well as from the far right. In 2009, Andrew Breitbart commissioned him for the option to publish new videos exclusively on BigGovernment.The Project Veritas board removed O'Keefe from leadership positions in February 2023 for what it said was financial malfeasance with donor money. On March 15, 2023, O'Keefe launched a new organization called O'Keefe Media Group. Project Veritas subsequently sued O'Keefe and two others, alleging that they had created the competing O'Keefe Media Group while still employees, approaching PV's donors and using company funds for this purpose. O'Keefe was also alleged to have improperly spent company funds on himself.
John Joseph Connolly Jr. (born August 1, 1940) is an American former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice, and murder charges stemming from his relationship with James "Whitey" Bulger, Steve Flemmi, and the Winter Hill Gang.State and federal officers had been trying to imprison Bulger for years, but he evaded capture until 2011. As the FBI handler for Bulger and Flemmi, Connolly (who was neighbors with the Bulgers in the Old Harbor Housing Project) had been protecting them from prosecution by supplying Bulger with information about possible attempts to catch them. Connolly was indicted on December 22, 1999, on charges of alerting Bulger and Flemmi to investigations, falsifying FBI reports to cover their crimes, and accepting bribes.In 2000, Connolly was charged with additional racketeering-related offenses. He was convicted in 2002 and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. In 2008, Connolly was convicted on state charges of second-degree murder in Florida and sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was released from federal prison on June 28, 2011, and transferred to the Florida State Prison to serve the remainder of his sentence for his 2008 conviction.In April 2020, Connolly asked to be allowed to serve the remainder of his sentence on home confinement due to fears of contracting COVID-19, citing a 2018 federal law allowing for compassionate release under "extraordinary" circumstances, such as age, health and other critical factors. A Miami-Dade judge initially declined to order his release, but Connolly was later granted a medical release on February 17, 2021.
Thirteen people involved in a significant drug trafficking network at Louisiana's maximum-security prison were sentenced to prison terms ranging from four to 16 years. The convicted individuals, including nine from Louisiana, three from California, and one from Mississippi, were found guilty of distributing cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine. The drugs were supplied from East Baton Rouge Parish and Colton, California, and were shipped to Baton Rouge from California. The conspiracy operated between February 2017 and May 2019, involving correctional officers and prison staff at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The investigation was led by the FBI, USPS, ATF, and local law enforcement agencies.
Ervin Lee Bolling, a former military member, crashed his SUV into an FBI office barricade in Atlanta, showing online connections to QAnon and support for former President Donald Trump. Bolling faces a charge of destruction of government property and is linked to promoting conspiracy theories. More than 1,265 defendants have been charged in connection to the January 6 events, including former President Trump.
Judge Juan Merchan in New York blocks Donald Trump's legal team from forcing NBC to hand over materials related to a recent documentary about Stormy Daniels. The ruling, just before the April 15 trial, pertains to 34 felony counts against Trump for alleged falsifying of business records for hush money payments. The judge called the subpoena a 'fishing expedition' lacking legal merit. Trump, facing multiple criminal cases, allegedly concealed hush money payments through his former lawyer Michael Cohen. Stormy Daniels, central to the case, is expected to serve as a key witness despite defense attempts to delay the trial pending Supreme Court rulings on presidential immunity claims.
Former President Donald Trump's attempts to dismiss charges against him in criminal cases related to election interference in Georgia and mishandling classified files in Florida were rejected by judges. The cases involve allegations of attempting to overturn the 2020 election and keeping secret government documents. Trump argued that the Presidential Records Act allowed him to retain sensitive files post-presidency, but prosecutors disagreed. The judges ruled that the charges were not based on the act and that Trump can still potentially use it as a defense during trial. Trials are scheduled for July, creating potential scheduling conflicts with the upcoming presidential election.
Billionaire businessman Don Hankey, who provided the $175 million bond for Donald Trump's civil fraud case in New York, stated that the fee charged to Trump was low and now believes it was insufficient considering the attention and scrutiny from authorities. Hankey, a Trump supporter, revealed that Knight Specialty Insurance, his company, provided the bond at a reduced amount after reaching out to Trump's representatives. Hankey expressed surprise at New York Attorney General Letitia James' scrutiny of the bond. Trump's legal team's actions regarding the bond negotiation are under ethical scrutiny.
The CIA informed House Republicans that an allegation they pushed was false, discrediting a major aspect of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Republicans lacked evidence and votes to move forward with impeachment. Department of Justice charged an FBI informant with lying about Biden's involvement in business dealings. CIA refuted claims of interfering in investigations. Republicans dispute CIA's refutation. Democrats question the source of evidence behind Republican accusations.
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