Election-denier attorney arrested after DC hearing about leaked Dominion documents
An attorney, Stefanie Lambert, facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election, was arrested on Monday following a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Lambert was arrested by U.S. Marshals after a hearing regarding potential sanctions against her for disseminating confidential emails from Dominion Voting Systems, the subject of conspiracy theories following former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat.
She obtained the Dominion emails while representing Patrick Byrne, a key financial backer of election conspiracy theorists being sued by Dominion for defamation.
In a statement, the Marshals office indicated that Lambert was arrested on “local charges.”
Earlier this month, a Michigan judge issued a bench warrant for Lambert after she failed to attend a hearing in her case, where she faces four felonies for accessing voting machines in pursuit of evidence supporting a conspiracy theory against Trump. Lambert had previously filed an unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump’s loss in Michigan.
Earlier on Monday, Lambert admitted to passing on the Dominion Voting Systems records to “law enforcement” and attached an affidavit containing some of the leaked emails signed by Dar Leaf, a county sheriff in northern Michigan who has investigated false claims of widespread election fraud from the 2020 election to a filing in her own Michigan case.
The remaining documents were posted on an account under Leaf’s name on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter.
Leaf did not respond to requests for comment, and Lambert’s attorney, Daniel Hartman, did not immediately respond to inquiries for comment.
Byrne mentioned in a text that he was unaware if Lambert had been arrested but expressed admiration if she had been, stating, “if she was, I respect her even more, and she can raise her rate to me.”
Lambert argued that the Dominion documents obtained during discovery were evidence of “crimes” that needed to be disclosed.
Byrne wrote on X that Lambert “signed an NDA, but she found evidence of ongoing crime, and reported it to law enforcement. If she found a severed head in the discovery box, she had a duty to report it to law enforcement, too.”
Dominion filed a motion on Friday demanding Lambert be disqualified from the Byrne case for breaching a protective order that U.S. District Court Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya had imposed on documents in the case. The motion stated that Lambert’s disclosure had led to renewed threats against the company, which has been the target of elaborate conspiracy theories regarding Trump’s loss.
“These actions should shock the conscience,” Dominion stated in its motion seeking Lambert's disqualification. “They reflect a total disregard for this Court’s orders, not to mention the safety of Dominion employees.”
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