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<blockquote data-quote="WPLG" data-source="post: 67600" data-attributes="member: 158">Two people have pleaded guilty in a scheme to peddle a diary and other items belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter to the conservative group Project Veritas for $40,000, prosecutors said Thursday.The two, both from Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams' office said.While authorities didn’t identify Biden, the type of property stolen or the organization that paid, the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-new-york-trump-investigations-barbara-jones-james-okeefe-031213499de227f58dc9755415a73f87" target="_blank">details of the investigation</a> have been public for months.Ashley Biden stored the diary, tax records, a digital device with family photos and a cellphone in September 2020 in a Delray Beach, Florida, home where one of the defendants was living at the time, prosecutors said in a release.They said the woman stole the items and got in touch with the other defendant, a man who contacted Project Veritas, which asked for photos of the material and then paid for the two to bring it to New York.They said the woman stole the items and got in touch with the other defendant, a man who contacted Project Veritas, which asked for photos of the material and then paid for the two to bring it to New York.Project Veritas staffers met with the two in New York and dispatched them back to Florida to retrieve more of Ashley Biden’s items from the home, which they did and turned the material over to a local Project Veritas worker who brought it to New York, prosecutors said.The activist group, which considers itself a news organization, paid the two $20,000 apiece, prosecutors said.Project Veritas has said it received the diary from “tipsters” who said it had been abandoned in a room. The activist group said it turned the journal over to law enforcement and never did anything illegal.Founder James O’Keefe has said that Project Veritas ultimately did not publish information from the diary because it could not confirm it belonged to Ashley Biden.Project Veritas is best known for conducting hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labor organizations and Democratic politicians.<a href="https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/08/25/2-plead-guilty-in-scheme-to-sell-bidens-daughters-diary/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WPLG, post: 67600, member: 158"] Two people have pleaded guilty in a scheme to peddle a diary and other items belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter to the conservative group Project Veritas for $40,000, prosecutors said Thursday. The two, both from Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams' office said. While authorities didn’t identify Biden, the type of property stolen or the organization that paid, the [URL='https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-new-york-trump-investigations-barbara-jones-james-okeefe-031213499de227f58dc9755415a73f87']details of the investigation[/URL] have been public for months. Ashley Biden stored the diary, tax records, a digital device with family photos and a cellphone in September 2020 in a Delray Beach, Florida, home where one of the defendants was living at the time, prosecutors said in a release. They said the woman stole the items and got in touch with the other defendant, a man who contacted Project Veritas, which asked for photos of the material and then paid for the two to bring it to New York. They said the woman stole the items and got in touch with the other defendant, a man who contacted Project Veritas, which asked for photos of the material and then paid for the two to bring it to New York. Project Veritas staffers met with the two in New York and dispatched them back to Florida to retrieve more of Ashley Biden’s items from the home, which they did and turned the material over to a local Project Veritas worker who brought it to New York, prosecutors said. The activist group, which considers itself a news organization, paid the two $20,000 apiece, prosecutors said. Project Veritas has said it received the diary from “tipsters” who said it had been abandoned in a room. The activist group said it turned the journal over to law enforcement and never did anything illegal. Founder James O’Keefe has said that Project Veritas ultimately did not publish information from the diary because it could not confirm it belonged to Ashley Biden. Project Veritas is best known for conducting hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labor organizations and Democratic politicians. [url="https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/08/25/2-plead-guilty-in-scheme-to-sell-bidens-daughters-diary/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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