Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe had his New York home raided by FBI agents Saturday, just a day after reporters for the conservative activist group were also searched over the stolen diaries of President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley.
Authorities raided O'Keefe's Westchester County residence just a day after O'Keefe himself acknowledged Project Veritas was under investigation.
Project Veritas did not publish the diary, as O'Keefe said in a video released Friday that the group could not confirm the authenticity of the diary, its belonging to Ashley Biden or that the contents of the diary were truthful.
The diary was obtained by Project Veritas just a week before the 2020 Presidential Election.
The investigation, ordered by the Department of Justice (DOJ), was carried out by both federal investigators and federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to the New York Times.
O'Keefe is seen at CPAC in August 2020 in National Harbor, Maryland
Ashley Biden, 40, is the only daughter of Joe and Jill Biden
The FBI searched two locations in New York linked to Project Veritas as part of an investigation into how Ashley Biden's diary was stolen and published online. She is pictured center at her father's 2021 inauguration
A spokesperson for the FBI said that agents had 'performed law enforcement activity' at the building, but did not give any details of the investigation. O'Keefe has yet to comment.
O'Keefe said Friday that Project Veritas had been offered the diary by tipsters who said that the then-Democratic candidate's daughter left it in a room where she stayed and the tipsters stayed after she departed. O'Keefe said that the tipsters said they were shopping it around to other outlets to see who would offer money for it.
O'Keefe then claimed that once they got ahold of the journal, they attempted to return it to an attorney representing Ashley. The attorney refused to authenticate the diary, so he said they then turned it into law enforcement.
But another conservative news site did publish the full 112-page diary, on Oct. 28, 2020, one week before the election. It was largely ignored by media and other conservative news sites that were likely skeptical of its authenticity. The Department of Justice's involvement,
