DOJ DROPS Ashley Biden Diary Case Against James O’Keefe

President Trump’s Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that it would be dropping all charges against James O’Keefe and Project Veritas in a case related to Ashley Biden’s infamous diary.

James O’Keefe reacted to the announcement on X:

BREAKING NEWS: DOJ Announces It Has DROPPED Criminal Investigation Into James O'Keefe, Spencer Meads and Eric Cochran Over the Ashley Biden Diary

The Southern District of New York Announcing Today the Criminal Case IS CLOSED and the Search Warrant Affidavit Materials Will Be… pic.twitter.com/GTW4Hj91kT

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 5, 2025

Project Veritas came into possession of the diary, which was taken from Joe Biden’s daughter, back in 2020.

You know, the one in which Ashley Biden lamented about her father coming in to take showers with her?

Of course, rather than investigating the contents of the diary, Biden’s DOJ focused on persecuting those who attempted to released it.

Liz Wheeler broke down what happened:

SCOOP: Big breaking news here.

Journalists formerly of Project Veritas—Spencer Meads, Eric Cochran, James O’Keefe—have been under ongoing investigation by the Biden DOJ for investigating Ashley Biden’s diary.

(They never published it, but that didn’t matter to Biden’s goons.)… pic.twitter.com/8agDvnJHNg

— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 5, 2025

The New York Times reported:

The Justice Department said on Wednesday that it would not bring charges against anyone affiliated with the group Project Veritas over their role in trying to publish the contents of a diary that had been stolen from Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s daughter in the final weeks of the 2020 election campaign.

The prosecutors, who made their announcement in a one-paragraph letter to a judge overseeing the matter, did not say why they were declining to bring additional charges in the long running investigation. In court filings in related cases, the Justice Department had laid out evidence of the group’s involvement in the effort to acquire and publish the diary, and had fought in court for access to evidence that investigators had obtained from the group’s operatives.

The investigation had raised difficult legal questions about the extent to which the First Amendment protected the publication of stolen materials. But it was unclear whether the decision was part of a larger pattern by the Justice Department since President Trump took office to walk away from cases involving his allies. Project Veritas and its founder, James O’Keefe, have long been favorites of Mr. Trump’s and gained attention by using sting operations and undercover videos to seek to embarrass liberal groups and mainstream news organizations, among others.

The Post Millennial added:

The Department of Justice has dropped its investigation into journalist James O’Keefe regarding the Ashley Biden diary case, concluding the probe without additional criminal charges.

O’Keefe announced the development, citing a letter from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to Judge Analisa Torres. The letter stated that the grand jury investigation tied to the case was now closed…

“The Government respectfully submits this letter to notify the Court that the grand jury investigation that led to the charges in United States v. Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander, No. 22 Cr. 457 (LTS), and the issuance of the above-referenced search warrants has concluded… no additional criminal charges are forthcoming,” the letter stated.

The case stems from a November 2021 FBI raid on O’Keefe’s home after he obtained a diary allegedly belonging to Ashley Biden. O’Keefe, with the backing of ACLU attorneys Brian Hauss and Brett Kaufman, had been fighting to unseal the search warrant materials related to the raid. O’Keefe said that the diary was turned over to him by a woman who said she occupied a room formerly occupied by Biden’s daughter who had left behind a duffle bag with the diary inside of it. O’Keefe did not publish the diary.

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