alt Hacker NewsCorrect, and there's no way that the private diary of a still-living daughter of a politician was acquired by any method other than theft.
Prosecutors don't need to prove the buyer actually dispositively knew the document was stolen, only that reasonable person would have known it to be such.
Which would be obvious in this case.
"No way" is an awfully strong statement. For example, people abandon personal material in storage units which are subsequently auctioned off fairly often.
But I appreciate you iterating on this -- I understand your position and while I disagree with you on the question of what "reasonable" would be in this case, I absolutely think that if I could read minds I would find that Project Veritas staffers at the very least knew the diary was stolen.