The FBI raided two addresses in New York on Thursday linked to
Project Veritas, as part of a probe into the alleged theft of President Biden's daughter's diary, according to the
New York Times, which curiously knew about the raid an hour after it happened, according to
Veritas founder James O'Keefe.
Search warrants were executed at a Midtown Manhattan apartment of longtime Veritas employee Spencer Meads.
James O'Keefe (left), Spencer Meads
While
Veritas did not publish excerpts of the diary, another conservative outlet ran dozens of handwritten pages from it on October 24, 2020 in the final days of the US presidential election. The website claimed that they received the documents from a whistleblower at another organization that would not publish the information.
According to the report,
Project Veritas said it knew the wherabouts of the actual diary, and had a recording of Ashley Biden admitting it was hers.
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Late last year, we were approached by tipsters claiming they had a copy of Ashley Biden’s diary," said O'Keefe," adding "the tipsters indicated that they were negotiating with a different media outlet for the payment of monies for the diary."
Ashley Biden
"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."
O'Keefe said that they turned the diary over to law enforcement after Ashley Biden's attorney refused to accept or authenticate it.