Ashley Biden and Joe Biden attend Gilt x Livelihood Launch Event at 6 St. John's Lane on February 7, 2017 in New York City. (Aurora Rose/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) NEW YORK - Two Florida residents 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.Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property, Manhattan U.S.
Attorney Damian Williams' office said."Harris and Kurlander sought to profit from their theft of another person’s personal property, and they now stand convicted of a federal felony as a result," Williams said in a statement.RELATED: Biden's canceling of student loans relies on pandemic, 2003 lawHarris' lawyer, Sam Talkin, said she "has accepted responsibility for her conduct and looks forward to moving on with her life." Kurlander’s lawyer, Florian Miedel, declined to comment.Harris, 40, of Palm Beach, and Kurlander, 58, face the possibility of up to five years in prison when sentenced.While authorities didn’t identify Ashley Biden or the organization that paid, the details of the investigation have been laid out in court filings and public statements from Project Veritas.Ashley Biden was moving out of a friend's Delray Beach, Florida, home in spring 2020 when she stored the diary, tax records, a digital device with family photos, a cellphone and other items there, prosecutors said in a court filing.They said Harris then moved into the same room, stole the items and got in touch with Kurlander, who contacted Project Veritas, which asked for photos of the material and then paid for the two to bring.