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No, it doesn't.In the filing it does say that PV verified the penmanship...his issue is with PV.
This is what the filing specifically says, and I will place in bold what appears to be most relevant to those "controversial" diary passages :
1) In September 2020, sources identified as R.K. (Robert Kurlander) and A.H. (Aimee Harris) contacted Project Veritas to report that they found a diary authored by Ashley Biden. Motion to Appoint Special Master 3, ECF No. 1. According to the sources, Biden left the diary and other belongings behind when she moved out of a house in Delray Beach, FL, that one of the sources subsequently occupied. Petition for return of property 4.
2) The sources described and sent messages of information from the diary and offered to bring the diary and other belongings to New York. R.K. (Robert Kurlander) and A.H. (Aimee Harris) requested payment from Project Veritas for the diary; their lawyers and Project Veritas' lawyers negotiated an agreement for the diary to be delivered to Project Veritas. Property pet. 4.
3) Project Veritas worked to authenticate the diary and engaged a handwriting expert; it began producing a video news story.
4) Project Veritas reached a Biden acquaintance who conferenced a person who identified herself as Biden. Biden stated the belongings were hers and asked that they be delivered to a friend in Delray Beach.
5) Project Veritas believed that the diary was authored by Biden and worked to finalize the news story about the diary and continued to analyze the contents of the diary. Id. at 5.
6) Petitioner O'Keefe decided against publishing the story. The email explaining his decision was printed in full in a filing with the court.
7) Another news website ran a story about Biden's brother which renewed Project Veritas' efforts to investigate the diary.
8) Project Veritas was contacted by a lawyer for Biden. Project Veritas offered to return the property to Biden if she agreed to view it personally and confirm her ownership; Biden's lawyer refused.
9) Project Veritas learned that another news organization had received a copy of the diary and the other news organization was concerned it was not authentic. Mr. O'Keefe again decided not to publish the story.
10) Shortly thereafter, a blog published the diary; it attributed its sources as a "whistleblower at another media organization that chose not to publish the diary."
11) In early November 2020, Project Veritas arranged for the delivery of the diary and other belongings to the Delray Beach, FL Police Department.
The Government, for its part, has been more circumspect in its public statements to the Court regarding the relevant factual background and its investigation. It characterized Project Veritas' assertions as "either false or misleading .... and directly contradicted by the evidence described in the sworn affidavits that were submitted to the federal magistrate judge in support of the search warrants." Government's Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Motions for Appointment of Special Master 3.
On August 25, 2022, Robert Kurlander and Aimee Harris pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property ....