A website has released bodycam footage reportedly from a July 18 law enforcement raid on the home of then State Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton, who is under investigation for fraud and recently resigned from the legislature, The Piñon Post reported.
Williams Stapleton is under investigation for racketeering, money laundering, and receiving illegal kickbacks through Albuquerque Public Schools involving a company called Robotics, Piñon Post said.
“I need to know what’s going on,” Williams Stapleton said to one of the officers, according to footage on the website “ABQ Raw”.
“We’ll explain everything to you very soon,” an officer said.
“A search warrant?” Williams Stapleton asked. “Oh my god. You have all these police for a search warrant?”
On the footage, a male agent hands Williams Stapleton what appears to be a search warrant and the affidavit for the search warrant, Piñon Post said.
“In there describes all the information concerning the information that APS (Albuquerque Public Schools) provided us… [inaudible] to Robotics,” the agent said, the website reported. “So, myself and we also have federal agents here with us today as well. They are investigating, of course, the, you know, everything that’s going on in Washington, D.C., concerning…”
Stapleton then says, “Robotics? What does Robotics have to do with… I do do the program. But I don’t have anything to do with anything in Washington.”
Williams resigned late last month from her legislative seat, KOAT reported.
“These are incredibly serious and significant allegations,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a statement, the station reported. “I anticipate a rigorous and thorough law enforcement investigation."
Speaker of the House Brian Egolf called the resignation “appropriate and in the best interest of the legislature and the state,” according to KOAT.
