A judge has agreed to let the woman accused of stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop attend this weekend’s Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in Manheim.
Riley Williams, under house arrest, is accused of stealing Pelosi’s laptop during the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol and then disposing of it.
Williams has been under house arrest since January, with the exception of work and health care.
She also requested that her trial be moved from Washington, D.C. this week, but her request was denied. She also requested that the terms of her release be changed in June, but this request was also denied.
Prosecutors claim Williams stole Pelosi’s computer from the speaker’s office and boasted about it on her own social media platform. The FBI was investigating whether Williams intended to sell the laptop to Russia’s foreign intelligence agency.
“I took Nancy Pelosi’s hard drives. I don’t care. Kill me,” authorities say she wrote on the social media site Discord.
