Riley Williams Wiki – Riley Williams Biography
Riley Williams is a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, woman accused of stealing a laptop or hard drive from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Capitol riots and plotting to sell it to the Russians.
A complaint affidavit says that Riley June Williams “has fled. According to local law enforcement officers in Harrisburg, Williams’ mother stated that Williams packed a bag and left her home and told her mother she would be gone for a couple of weeks.” She also deleted her social media accounts.
The complaint also links to the above video titled, “Revealed: ITV News identifies protester who stormed the Capitol.”
In that video, the reporter identifies “Riley Williams” as “the person depicted in snippets of the prior ITV video described above,” the complaint says. “The reporter then interviewed a woman who identified herself as Williams’ mother and showed her some type of video footage.”
Williams’ mother “then stated that she recognized her daughter inside the U.S. Capitol Building and that her daughter had taken a sudden interest in President Trump’s politics” and “far-right message boards.” She claimed that Williams “took off,” and “is gone” and is “waiting for law enforcement to come to Williams and ask her about her activities in the Capitol.”
She was wearing a shirt identifying with the Groyper Army, described by ADL as “a loose network of alt-right figures who are vocal supporters of white supremacist and ‘America First’ podcaster Nick Fuentes.”
Riley Williams Age
Riley Williams’s age is unknown.
Former Romantic Partner of Riley Williams
In the days following the January 6, 2021, riots, a witness “made several phone calls into the FBI’s telephone tip line related to the U.S. Capitol attacks… In them, the caller stated that he/she was the former romantic partner of Riley June Williams.”
The informant said she noticed Williams “depicted in video footage taken on January 6, 2021, from inside the U.S. Capitol Building.” The informant said Williams “can be seen directing” crowds inside the U.S. Capitol Building up a staircase.
The informant directed police to the above YouTube video. The informant “also claimed to have spoken to friends of Williams,” who showed the informant a video fo Williams “taking a laptop computer or hard drive from Speaker Pelosi’s office.”
Williams Planned to Sell the Device to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence
According to the informant, Williams “intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.”
The informant told the FBI that “the transfer of the computer device to Russia fell through for unknown reasons and Williams still has the computer device or destroyed it. This matter remains under investigation.”
The affidavit says authorities reviewed the YouTube video that is called “Storming the Capitol: The Inside Story.” At about 20 minutes and 40 seconds into the video, “there appears at the bottom of a staircase the subject, believed to be Williams, a Caucasian female wearing a green t-shirt and brown trench coat and carrying a black-and-white striped zebra-print bag over her shoulders.”
The complaint adds: “She has brown shoulder-length hair and wears eyeglasses. She is wearing a black face mask below her chin, around her neck. She can be heard in the video repeatedly yelling, ‘Upstairs, upstairs, upstairs,’ and can be seen physically directing other intruders to proceed up a staircase. The video also shows a stream of intruders walking up a nearby staircase. Two sample screenshots of that YouTube video appear below.”
Complaint Accuses Williams of Directing ‘Intruders’
The complaint says that the officer has “confirmed with U.S. Capitol Police that the staircase depicted in the video does, in fact, lead to Speaker Pelosi’s office. I have also reviewed maps of the interior areas of the U.S. Capitol and confirmed the subject appears to have been in an area near ‘the crypt,’ sometimes referred to as the ‘Small House Rotunda.’”
In the audio of the ITV News video, the reporter “states that the recording took place near the U.S. Capitol Building area called ‘the crypt.’”
In the background, a bust of Winston Churchill was visible behind the subject, which is also consistent with the location in the “Small House Rotunda.” The maps “confirm that there is a nearby staircase, which leads to the office of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.”
The complaint says, “I have reviewed other images the FBI obtained that were taken during the January 6, 2021, civil unrest inside the U.S. Capitol Building. Set forth below is a photograph that also depicts…Williams inside the U.S. Capitol Building, pointing and directing intruders. She is wearing the same green t-shirt and brown trench coat.”
Williams Went With Her Father to D.C. for the Protests
The officer wrote in the complaint about having “spoken with local law enforcement agents in Harrisburg about their recent interactions with Williams’s parents. According to those officers, on January 11, 2021, local law enforcement received a suspicious person report filed by Williams’ mother.”
When officers arrived at the home Williams shares with her mother, they were able to interview the mother without Williams present. The mother said the suspicious person was assumed to be the informant.
Williams’ mother, with officers present, “used her cell phone to place a video-enabled phone call to Williams. Officers observed Williams on her mother’s cell phone screen and noted that Williams was wearing a brown-colored jacket, consistent with the screenshots above. According to the Harrisburg officers, on January 16, 2021, they again spoke with Williams’ mother who told them that a British media crew had come to her home the night before, asking to speak with Williams, who was not present.”
The complaint says the mother acknowledged to the news crew that her daughter was in the Capitol images. Officers called Williams’ father in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. “He stated that he drove to Washington, D.C., with WILLIAMS for the protests on January 6, 2021. He stated that his daughter and he did not stay together throughout the day and that Williams was meeting up with other individuals she knew at the protests. Williams later met up with her father outside of the U.S. Capitol Building, and they returned home to Harrisburg together,” the complaint said.