Stefanie Lambert, an election integrity attorney in Michigan, was arrested on Monday in Washington D.C. for failing to appear at a court hearing in Michigan involving charges against her for allegedly breaching voting machines. After agreeing to surrender to authorities in Michigan, Lambert was released on $10,000 bond. Lambert said in court filings, and a statement that she failed to show up for the hearing due to a miscommunication with her former counsel, who told her the meeting was canceled.
The attorney was arrested after taking part in a hearing Monday representing her client, former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, against a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed against him in 2021. Dominion sued Byrne for predicting months before the 2020 election that there would be illegal election activity to change the election results and named Dominion as one of the actors involved.
“I just know too much. And I have too much evidence,” Lambert said Monday during a live audio conversation on X.
Lambert was charged in August last year along with two others by Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel for unlawful possession of voting machines and conspiracy to access voting machines. The other two charged were Matthew DePerno, who ran against Nessel for Michigan Attorney General and former Michigan State Representative Daire Rendon. The group allegedly took five ballot tabulators from Barry, Roscommon, and Missaukee counties to Oakland County, where they conducted tests on them. They said they obtained permission from local clerks, so it was not a crime.
The hearing Lambert missed in Michigan, which prompted the bench warrant, was about her failure to comply with court requirements to provide fingerprints and a DNA sample. Lambert had fought the order, arguing it violated her privacy and due process rights.
The hearing Lambert was arrested at dealt with accusations that Lambert leaked documents from Dominion obtained in discovery from the lawsuit to Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, who has been posting them on his X page.
Lambert said she gave them to him because she was reporting a crime to law enforcement. Leaf sent a letter to Republican members of the House of Representatives on Saturday warning that the Dominion documents reveal that the company instructed Serbian nationals to remotely access the Michigan election system in 2020.
Additionally, he said, “I have evidence that U.S. Dominion and its affiliates (Dominion) instructed its employees to alter or otherwise falsify the integrity of the software and hardware in its voting machines and systems to attain certification by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), even when they knew that the systems could not be properly verified and certified.”
Leaf said he was investigating Dominion for multiple crimes including perjury by its CEO. “The perjury charge stems from assurances by Dominion’s CEO during sworn testimony before the Michigan Legislature that its voting machines and voting systems could not be accessed or connected to by outside networks and sources, and that it was a ‘US based company,’” he said.
Lambert said in a post on X on Monday, “I gave the evidence to law enforcement. The discovery (file from Dominion) contained evidence of numerous crimes. The Constitution does not permit secret Serbians to run our elections. Local clerks are to run our elections, & transparency is prevented by vendors (Dominion).”
I gave the evidence to law enforcement. The discovery (file from Dominion) contained evidence of numerous crimes. The Constitution does not permit secret Serbians to run our elections. Local clerks are to run our elections, & transparency is prevented by vendors (Dominion). pic.twitter.com/Lgyu06GL0w
— Stefanie Lambert (@AttyStefLambert) March 18, 2024
Byrne told The Arizona Sun Times, “If Stefanie had opened up the Dominion discovery box and had found a severed head in the box, evidence of a crime that had occurred, she would have had a duty to report that notwithstanding any prior agreement of confidentiality. But she says she opened the box and found not just evidence of PAST criminal activity, but ONGOING criminal activity affecting our ongoing elections, and had a duty to report it to law enforcement.”
Dominion wants Lambert removed from the case and said the claims were “xenophobic.” The judge overseeing the defamation case ordered Lambert to stop providing the documents to Leaf.
The county sheriff last posted documents on X on Sunday and Monday. Leaf is now fighting a subpoena from prosecutors ordering him to release material from his investigation into the 2020 presidential election.
Nessel, who has aggressively gone after individuals concerned about election fraud, handed the prosecution off last year to a special prosecutor due to a conflict of interest for prosecuting her opponent DePerno.
Lambert was also involved in election lawsuits challenging illegalities in the 2020 election. Leaf is a Constitutional Sheriffs & Peace Officers Association board member, and considered seizing voting machines after the 2020 election.
Dominion is also suing former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, as well as cable networks Newsmax and One America News. Fox News settled with Dominion last year for $787 million, the largest defamation verdict known in history. A lawyer familiar with the case told The Sun Times that Fox News settled because the judge made it clear addressing the motions for summary judgment that the jury would be given instructions to treat statements that Giuliani and Powell had made as false.
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Rachel Alexander is a reporter at The Arizona Sun Times and The Star News Network. Follow Rachel on Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Stefanie Lambert” by Stefanie Lambert.
