Our mission is to serve the publics right to know by illuminating, revealing and exposing information others wish to hide for the wrong reasons. According to the Times, Kurlander previously pleaded guilty to a federal money laundering crime in 1994, and harris is full cooperating with the investigation, according to her lawyer. Joe Biden with daughter Ashley, wife Jill and son-in-law Howard Krein Getty Images. Project Veritas will run from nothing, and we will hide from nothing. I wrote that the Justice Department alleged that Project Veritas "apparently" paid "$50,000" for the diary and other Ashley Biden property. Biden stated that the belongings were hers and asked that they be delivered to a friend in Delray Beach. Quoting from this section of the document as evidence for the veracity of Project Veritas claims would be like taking a court-published transcript of O.J. Dates written in the diary run from January 25 to September 18 of 2019 when she was. Even as a child, I had a hard time reconciling the inherent unfairness of it all.. The government also said it was seeking any communications that the group prepared to send to Ms. Biden, Mr. Biden and others about her property. How about they do a "follow up" on that? Ms. Walczak declined to comment. Another page discusses Hunters birthday and Beaus birthday, the names of Bidens two sons; Beau is deceased. Legal proceedings that occurred later make it clear that the National File document came from (or purportedly came from) Project Veritas (PV) a political organization that claims to practice journalism. How Ashley Bidens Diary Made Its Way to Project Veritas, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/us/politics/ashley-biden-project-veritas-diary.html. Project Veritas, the conservative group under scrutiny in a Justice Department investigation of how a diary kept by President Bidens daughter Ashley Biden was published days before the 2020 election, has told a federal judge that it received a diary from two people who said they had legally obtained it after she had abandoned it. Case 1:21-Mc-00813-AT Document 118. In a recent letter to Congress, a lawyer for Project Veritas said it had been told the items had been abandoned in a room where Ms. Biden had stayed. How about they do a follow up on that?. The Justice Department searched two locations associated with the conservative group Project Veritas as part of an investigation into how a diary stolen from President Biden's daughter,. The Times also reported that a Trump donor from fForida who knows Kurlander, Elizabeth Fago, is being scrutinized in the investigation., According to the Times, Project Veritas wrote Biden and asked for an interview, saying if he refused the site would have no voice but to act unilaterally and serve the right to disclose that you refused our offer to provide answers. Shortly thereafter Ms. Biden's lawyers alerted prosecutors at the United States Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, which is now overseeing the case. 21 Mar. In response, Ms. Bidens lawyers accused Project Veritas of threatening them as part of extortionate effort to secure an interview with Mr. Biden in the campaigns closing days. According to The New York Times, Ashley Bidens friend then allowed his ex-girlfriend Aimee Harris to move into the home. The content and text of the Ashley Biden diary were published by a conservative news site before the 2020 presidential election. Federal authorities are looking into whether there was a criminal conspiracy among a handful of individuals to steal and publish the diary, The Times reported. Anyone can read what you share. Project Veritas Accuses Federal Prosecutors of 'All-Out Assault on the First Amendment and Free Press' in Fight About Alleged Ashley Biden Diary. Project Veritas will run from nothing, and we will hide from nothing. And it has been making a case in court and to Congress that, despite its use of undercover stings and other deceptive tactics, it is practicing a form of journalism that deserves the same legal and constitutional protections afforded news organizations. It matters to people on all sides. We never published it. Since then, the White House and . More than 120 pages published. Margot Frank (Ashley Brooke) and Miep Gies (Bel Powley) in "A Small Light." . This leaked information likely was intended to preemptively deflect criticism that the D.O.J. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/us/politics/project-veritas-special-master.html. Weve investigated powerful people, and, in many ways, we are the tip of the spear, but we never break the law. The website said it had obtained the diary from a whistle-blower who worked for a media organization that had decided not to publish a story on the topic. A New York Times report published in March recounted a similar story: Ashley Biden stored some personal belongings at the house in Delray Beach when she moved out, with the owner's permission. We investigated the claims provided to us, as journalists do. A Florida woman tried to shop around the diary of Ashley Biden, President Biden's daughter, during a 2020 Trump campaign fundraiser attended by Donald Trump Jr. before it was obtained by. The Intercept reported in September 2022 that in October 2020 an employee of Project Veritas provided the alleged diary to the National File when Project Veritas had reservations about publishing it. The New York Times reported that the FBI investigation is into how a diary stolen from President Bidens daughter, Ashley, came to be publicly disclosed a week and a half before the 2020 presidential election., The Times further reported, Project Veritas did not publish Ms. Bidens diary, but dozens of handwritten pages from it were posted on a right wing website., According to the New York Times, the investigation was first opened in October 2020 by Trumps Justice Department after a representative for Bidens family reported that several of Ms. Bidens personal items had been stolen in a burglary.. executed search warrants last week at the homes of Mr. OKeefe and two former employees for the group. . My dad is a lifelong public servant; my mom was a public-school teacherits in my DNA.. Spokesmen for the F.B.I. A passage often cited makes reference to sexual trauma in general, and in a largely unrelated sentence, references the fact that she took showers with her dad "at a young age." The conservative group confirmed a New York Times report that the investigation involves allegations that a diary belonging to the president's daughter had been stolen. A decade later, a purported friend of hers tried to sell the New York Post a hidden camera video that they said showed a woman resembling Biden using cocaine, Examiner reported. The New York Times, 20 Mar. Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander admitted to participating in a conspiracy in which Ashley Biden's diary ended up in the hands of the conservative group Project Veritas near the end of the 2020 . Anyone can read what you share. James OKeefe, founder of Project Veritas, in 2020. We dont mislead or conceal. Now, this is not the first time we have been attacked and it will not be the last. National File, 26 Oct. 2020, https://nationalfile.com/full-release-ashley-biden-diary-reveals-child-sex-trauma-drug-abuse-resentment-for-joe-whistleblower/. NBC News, 25 Aug. 2022, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/2-florida-residents-plead-guilty-theft-ashley-bidens-diary-rcna44840. Joe !!!.. This federal investigation smacks of politics. President Biden is a former U.S. senator and vice president. On LinkedIn, Biden lists experience as an education and employment liaison with the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families from 2007 to 2012; employment and education specialist at West End Neighborhood House in Wilmington, Delaware, from 2006 to 2007; and a clinical support specialist at NHS Childrens Reach Clinic in Philadelphia from 2003 to 2006. She also helped foster care children. Biden told Glamour that her early calling came in animal welfare issues. Weve gone far beyond the point of partisan politics in this country. Indeed, that is how several right-wing influencer accounts read and disseminated the news. The search is reportedly tied to the diary of President Biden's daughter, Ashley, which was stolen shortly before the 2020 election. They dont ask us to focus on the things which unite us. Just days before the 2020 presidential election, Ashley was again thrust into headlines as a document that appeared to be her handwritten diary was published online, reportedly detailing a great . Patrick Howley (@HowleyReporter) November 7, 2021. The Biden Presidency . When the FBI and the Southern District of New York seize reporters notebooks, it is not just an attack on Project Veritas. In November 2021, for example, when Project Veritas confirmed media reports that it had been raided by the FBI, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted,"if the FBI raided someone's house over Ashley Biden's diary being stolen, that means Ashley Biden's diary and the accusations in it were real. In March 2023, claims that the diary had officially been authenticated peaked again. I think so I cant remember specifics but I do remember trauma I remember not liking the (last names) house; I remember somewhat being sexualized with (another female); I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate); being turned on when I wasnt suppose to be., The page also refers to overhearing parents having sex and claims, my mother not emotionally available. We do not know how The New York Times was aware of the execution of a search warrant at our reporters home, or the subject matter of the search warrant, as a Grand Jury investigation is secret. All of these relevant facts aside, though, no government official, prosecutor, or judge has explicitly "confirmed" that the diary published by National File is authentic. Ashley Biden's diary - which was published shortly before the 2020 election by a conservative news site that highlighted a claim against her father - is the subject of a criminal probe. But while the Department of Justice requested us to not disclose the existence of the subpoena, something very unusual happened. No, really. Mr. Kurlander was sentenced to 40 months in prison. []. In a statement after the investigation became public, Mr. OKeefe said: Project Veritas gave the diary to law enforcement to ensure it could be returned to its rightful owner. The lawyer who took Ms. Bidens belongings to the police in Florida described them as crap and that he was fine with officers throwing the bags away. Feds are ridiculous people, Patrick Howley (@HowleyReporter) November 6, 2021, Howley tweeted, The Pundit Class is busy doing process pieces on high-level investigative journalism instead of reporting on Joe and Ashleys showers. However, conservative commentators have seized on the FBI investigation as proof the diary was Bidens; it contains an allegation that she was concerned she was molested, although the page does not specify by whom. At Tulane University, she was known as a party girl, according to The New York Post. This information was not new and not a revelation by the special master. Now, more than a year later, the Justice Department is deep into an investigation of how the diary found its way into the hands of supporters of Mr. Trump at the height of the campaign. James O'Keefe appears in a Tuesday, March 22, 2022 video to complain about material he and his attorneys say the federal government seized from him in . The FBI raided the former President and Presidential Candidate's property. The FBI raided Project Veritas to retrieve Ashley Biden's diary and cover up the story. Ryan, Grim. It is an attack on every American and our sacred right to free speech and a free press. However, it appears journalism itself may now be on trial. The diary reportedly details her drug abuse, sex addiction and her being "hypersexualized." Project Veritas had no involvement with how those two individuals acquired the diary, lawyers for the group said in a letter dated Wednesday to a federal judge in New York. In March 2019, the page says, So we are running. But these statements are not a publication of facts or a representation made by the government. The diary was later sent to Project Veritas, a conservative. "FULL RELEASE: Ashley Biden Diary Reveals Child Sex Trauma, Drug Abuse, Resentment For Joe - Whistleblower." In October 2020, she gave $500 to pro-Trump committees. According to the Times, he was also the first journalist to publish a yearbook picture showing Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and another person (the people in the photo were wearing a KKK outfit and blackface), and also first published text messages revealing an extramarital affair between Democratic Senate candidate in North Carolina, Cal Cunningham, and a woman. The groups lawyers were asking U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres for a so-called special master to determine what materials seized by federal investigators could be used as evidence in their investigation. The content and text of the diary were. It was made public less than two weeks before the 2020 election by a right-wing website that posted several photographs of diary pages it claimed were written by Ms. Biden. It remains unclear how Ms. Harris and Mr. Kurlander made contact with Project Veritas and what role others might have played in facilitating the transaction. Reporting was contributed by Patricia Mazzei, William K. Rashbaum, Kitty Bennett, Matthew Cullen and Kirsten Noyes. On October 16, 2020, shortly after the call to Ashley, a lawyer for Project Veritas asked for an on-camera interview with Joe Biden to discuss the diary, which the campaign obviously did not agree to. The F.B.I. Was I molested. Sometimes, as was the case here, after we investigate, we decide to not publish a news story. Without accountability, freedom itself is an illusion. In 2016, she co-hosted a fund-raiser for Mr. Trump at his club at Mar-a-Lago. But the police report said that Mr. Bantners client had told him that the property was possibly stolen and he got it from an unknown person at a hotel., The video footage, which appears to be a partial account of the encounter, records Mr. Bantner describing the bags as crap. The officer can be heard telling Mr. Bantner that he is going to throw the bags in the garbage because the officer did not have any information or proof of evidence.. Patrick Howley (@HowleyReporter) November 7, 2021. Howley, Patrick. Project Veritas claims it thought Ashley Biden's diary had been "legally obtained" by two people who provided it to the right-wing group after the president's daughter "abandoned it." "Project . At . A month prior to the November 2020 U.S. presidential election, right-wing blog The National Filepublished what it claimed was "a copy of the complete diary of Ashley Blazer Biden, the 39-year-old daughter of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, dating from during the 2020 presidential campaign.". []. At the center of the matter is a right-wing website's publication in late October 2020 of several images from a handwritten diary purportedly belonging to Biden's 40-year-old daughter, Ashley . In its own court filing, Project Veritas has acknowledged acquiring the diary from two people it identified as A.H. and R.K., but said it was told they had acquired the diary lawfully. Like her brother Hunter, Ashley has struggled with addiction and left her diary with some clothes in a house in Delray, Florida. The group, the Delaware Center for Justice, received a federal Edward Byrne Memorial grant, which Joe Biden supported, the site reported. Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer reporting on scientific misinformation, online fraud, and financial crime. The tipsters indicated that they were negotiating with a different media outlet for the payment of monies for the diary. But a search warrant in the case suggests the Justice Department believes the diary kept by the presidents daughter Ashley Biden was stolen. Follow Patrick on Twitter @HowleyReporter and at Gab.com/patrickreports., Howley tweeted, The voice that the Deep State and the media is trying to suppress is Ashley Biden., Imagine being on the FBI "Find Ashley's Diary" Task Force lol. At the end of the day, we made the ethical decision that because, in part, we could not determine if the diary was real, if the diary in fact belonged to Ashley Biden, or if the contents of the diary occurred, we could not publish the diary and any part thereof. The Bidens also raised Joes sons from his first marriage, Beau and Hunter. Ashley is the youngest of Biden's children and the only one from his marriage to First Lady Jill Biden. "Confirmed: Ashley Biden's diary is real," right wing influencer Kyle Becker tweeted of the news, explaining that "two people just plead guilty to federal charges of stealing the diary of President Biden's daughter.". Aaron Keller Mar 22nd, 2022, 3:46 pm. Should the Southern District of New York try to take away our First Amendment rights to uncover and publish newsworthy stories without government intimidation, be assured, Project Veritas will not back down. According to NBC, an FBI spokesperson confirmed that the agency is investigating the possible theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Bidens daughter, Ashley Biden.. News reports have widely reported that the case involved property belonging to Ashley Biden, daughter of President Joe Biden. According to the search warrant which described Ms. Bidens property as stolen the government said it was looking for any evidence Mr. OKeefe had about how Ms. Bidens property was obtained and whether Ms. Biden was surveilled before the property was taken. On Oct. 16, 2020, Project Veritas wrote to Mr. Biden and his campaign that it had obtained a diary Ms. Biden had abandoned and wanted to question Mr. Biden on camera about its contents that referred specifically to him. According to the Times, Ashley Biden was living in Delray Beach, Fla., with a friend in a rented home, after being in rehab. The diary is, of course, terrible. In March 2022, The New York Times reported on it: A month before the 2020 election, Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s daughter, Ashley, received a call from a man offering help. This is a diary that Project Veritas has said it was unable to authenticate, did not publish, and turned over to authorities . At the same time, another effort was underway in secret to try to expose the contents of a diary kept the previous year by Mr. Bidens daughter, Ashley Biden, as she underwent treatment for addiction. Now, this is not the first time we have been attacked and it will not be the last. We previously published a detailed story about rumors of the existence of a diary that allegedly belonged to Ashley Biden. The New York Times reported that the FBI investigation is into how a diary stolen from President Bidens daughter, Ashley, came to be publicly disclosed a week and a half before the 2020 presidential election., The Times further reported, Project Veritas did not publish Ms. Bidens diary, but dozens of handwritten pages from it were posted on a right wing website., According to the New York Times, the investigation was first opened in October 2020 by Trumps Justice Department after a representative for Bidens family reported that several of Ms. Bidens personal items had been stolen in a burglary.. Announcement will be in April or early May. Group eventually declined to publish Biden's deeply personal writings OKeefe also once presided over a company that used that address, The Times reported. "Florida Pair Pleads Guilty in Theft of Biden's Daughter's Diary." Was I molested. What is this due to? That an investigation was opened into, as it was first described in public filings, the theft of "personal belongings of an immediate family member of a then-former government official who was a candidate for national political office," and that two people were arrested for allegedly transporting, among other things, a stolen journal, further support its authenticity. A West Palm Beach woman discovered items Ashley Biden left in a Delray Beach home. Project Veritas did not publish Ms. Biden's diary, but dozens of handwritten pages from it were posted on a right-wing website last year a week and a half before Election Day, at a time when. Then 38, Ashley Biden had worked for the group for a year and was promoted to executive director, according to Examiner, which added that the grant is designed to strengthen local law enforcement.. While you are under no obligation to comply with our request, we are requesting you not to make any disclosure in order to preserve the confidentiality of the investigation and because disclosure of the existence of this investigation might interfere with and impede the investigation'. "2 Florida Residents Plead Guilty in Theft of Ashley Biden's Diary." FILE President Joe Biden walks on the beach with daughter Ashley Biden, in Rehoboth Beach, Del., June 20, 2022. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/politics/project-veritas-investigation-ashley-biden-diary.html. In August 2022, the two individuals who found, transported, and sold the alleged diary to Project Veritas pleaded guilty to transporting stolen property across state lines. The National File wrote that it obtained this document from a whistleblower who was concerned the media organization that employs him would not publish the materials in the final days before the presidential election., The National File wrote that it has a recording of Ashley Biden admitting the diary is hers, and employed a handwriting expert who verified the pages were all written by Ashley.. The proceedings in the case have been sealed, but a producer for Fox News provided The New York Times with a copy of the letter written by the Project Veritas lawyers and its attachments, including a copy of the search warrant. National File argued that the declaration of facts provided by Project Veritas in the special master filing proved that O'Keefe was lying about having doubts, and that he and his organization believed it to be real. So, the great question is: Is this an indicator in the direction that America is going? How long are they going to cover Biden? Powered by. Project Veritas gave the diary to law enforcement to ensure it could be returned to its rightful owner. At the end of the day, we made the ethical decision that because, in part, we could not determine if the diary was real, if the diary in fact belonged to Ashley Biden, or if the contents of the diary occurred, we could not publish the diary and any part thereof. The searches were targeting people who had worked with the group and its leader, James OKeefe, according to the Times. My dad is a lifelong public servant; my mom was a public-school teacherits in my DNA.. Announcement will be in April or early May. Before the 2020 election, a conservative news site called National File highlighted unverified pages from the Ashley Biden diary, but it didnt gain much traction at that time until the FBI launched a criminal probe, investigating, among others, the conservative group Project Veritas. I've now. You can read that original report here. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. Goldman, Adam, and Michael S. Schmidt. The group which purchased the diary but ultimately did not publish it and denies any wrongdoing has assailed the investigation. Using initials for the individuals who the lawyers said approached the group with the diary, the lawyers said the groups knowledge about how R.K. and A.H. came to possess the diary came from R.K. and A.H. themselves.. Two Florida residents pleaded guilty in a case connected to a stolen diary that reportedly belonged to Ashley Biden, the president's daughter, and that ended up in the hands of conservative . A former diary believed to belong to President Joe Biden 's daughter, Ashley Biden, is now at the center of a federal investigation into how its handwritten pages ended up published on an obscure . When the FBI and the Southern District of New York seize reporters notebooks, it is not just an attack on Project Veritas. Published: 19:42 EDT, 1 May . Weve investigated powerful people, and, in many ways, we are the tip of the spear, but we never break the law. Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News, via Associated Press, ruling from the judge posted on Twitter by a Project Veritas lawyer. The Justice Department searched two locations associated with the conservative group Project Veritas as part of an investigation into how a diary stolen from President Biden's daughter, Ashley, came to be publicly disclosed a week and a half before the 2020 presidential election, according to people briefed on the matter. The authenticity of these and other pages has not been confirmed. Project Veritas Tells Judge It Was Assured Biden Diary Was Legally Obtained, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/us/politics/project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary.html. The diary also contains an allegation that the writer was concerned she was molested, although the page does not specify by whom. Project Veritas never threatened or engaged in any illegal conduct. The inquiry has also intensified the scrutiny of Project Veritas. They are not, as has been implied, statements of the special master, the U.S. District Court, or government prosecutors. Two Florida residents pleaded guilty in a case connected to a stolen diary that reportedly belonged to Ashley Biden . Like any reporter, we regularly deal with the receipt of source information and take steps to verify its authenticity, legality, and newsworthiness. But in June, with the campaign ramping up, she headed to the Philadelphia area, planning to return to the Delray home in the fall before the lease expired in November. Project Veritas declined to publish the diary, which inspired a "whistle-blower" from that organization to deliver the document to National File. Despite being under investigation, Project Veritas did not publish the diary because of concerns it wasnt real.However, since that time, federal officials have launched the criminal investigation into Ashley Bidens diary, indicating that the diary was really the presidents daughters journal.
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