Isn't receiving stolen property a crime?

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[Takket]

1. it is if you know it is stolen. but anyone involved will just say "someone handed it to me"

"i have no idea where they got it from".

[elleng]

2. Receiving Stolen Property

Though each state has its own laws and terminology, all states, and the federal government, criminalize the receipt of stolen property.

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/Receipt-of-Stolen-Property.htm

[dumbcat]

20. Not quite that simple

as there is that whole "knowingly" or "should have known" part that prosecutors have to prove, as your link clearly explains.

You can make a case that anyone reading someone else's diary "should have known" it was stolen, but it has to be proven and up to a jury. One could claim that many diaries have been donated to various organizations. It's not a done deal.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Yes it is.

That's why pawn shops must keep good records, and are often visited by police.

[WarGamer]

4. This story tells you all you need to know re: origins of diary.

Apparently Ashley left it at a friends house...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/us/politics/project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary.html

[Kingofalldems]

5. So it was stolen.

[WarGamer]

6. The DoJ is currently investigating that very possibility

[Kingofalldems]

9. Article states Biden family reported a burglary.

And you are claiming it was at a friend's house?

[WarGamer]

11. The NYT article says the diary was left at a friends house.

Just read the article, lol...

[Kingofalldems]

12. Doesn't jibe with the link I posted.

LOL.

[WarGamer]

13. NYT:

Ms. Biden had in fact kept a diary the previous year as she recovered from addiction and had stored it and some other belongings at a friend’s home in Florida where she had been living until a few months earlier. The diary’s highly personal contents, if publicly disclosed, could prove an embarrassment or a distraction to her father at a critical moment in the campaign.

[Kingofalldems]

15. Implication was she forgot it.

So no.

[WarGamer]

16. no, what?

[Kingofalldems]

18. 'Left' at a friends house vs 'stored'.

So no.

[WarGamer]

19. hahahaa...

A distinction without a difference.

Let's just allow the DoJ to figure this out.

Arguing about minutiae is silly.

[Kingofalldems]

7. And according to this it was reported stolen.

https://heavy.com/news/ashley-biden-diary/

[WarGamer]

8. the NYT article notes that...

There's an active DoJ investigation into Project Veritas re: obtaining the diary.

[old as dirt]

10. Historically, throughout the 1700s, ...

...in my wife's culture beef obtained thru cattle rustling was considered as a gift from the devil.

Cattle rustlers were considered as cultural heroes, and their beef sold at higher prices at local markets when its origin was advertised.

Every family grouping was allotted one cow a week.

It was just a part of their religion (Roman Catholic), that's all.

While blessed by their Religion, cattle rustling was considered a crime by the State.

In the Land of Magical Realism, Cattle Rustling was part of the War between Church and State.

[Turbineguy]

14. Well, it's not as good as the "pee tape"

but it is something.

[Iggo]

17. For me and you? Yes.