“Sell to Russia, but it was misfired”… FBI tracks woman taking Pelosi laptop

A note left by supporters of President Donald Trump on the desk of US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi right after the U.S. Uihui violence incident on the 6th (local time) is posted. On the 8th, two days after the incident, Pelosi said the laptop computer was gone. /AFP Yonhap News
Riley June Williams, suspected of taking the laptop computer of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the violence in the US Capitol on the 6th (local time). /Reuters Yonhap News

On the 6th (local time), a woman who appears to have stolen a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the uprising of the Capitol in Washington DC was reported to have failed to sell it to Russia.

According to CNBC on the 18th (local time), US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Investigator Jonathan Lund said in a statement filed with the Washington DC Federal District Court the evening before that he was seeing a Pennsylvania woman named Riley June Williams as a suspect.

According to investigator Lund, Williams’ old boyfriend called the FBI and reported that “Williams planned to send the laptop to a friend in Russia and sell it to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).” “The plan went wrong for unknown reasons, and Williams still owned or destroyed the computer,” the informant said.

The FBI received the report and compared it to the footage at the time, confirming that Williams appeared to guide the intruders up the stairs leading to Chairman Pelosi’s office.

Williams was found to be on the run. Williams’ mother told local agents at her home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, “I packed my daughter’s bag and left home. He said he would be away for about two to three weeks.”

Chairman Pelosi said on the 8th, two days after the incident, that a laptop used for presentations was stolen in a conference room.
/ Reporter Maeng Joon-ho [email protected]

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