Pro-Trump Michigan attorney arrested after hearing in DC over leaking Dominion documents

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Dominion Voting tabulator machines are shown in use for the Michigan primary election in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Michigan is the last major primary state before Super Tuesday and a critical swing state in November’s general election. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)Read More

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FILE – Patrick Byrne, the former chief executive of Overstock.com arrives at the O’Neill House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2022. An attorney charged with illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election acknowledged in a court filing Monday, March 18, 2024, that she disseminated numerous confidential emails from a voting machine company in a separate case. Lambert had just joined the Dominion defamation case to represent Byrne. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Read More

BY NICHOLAS RICCARDI AND JOEY CAPPELLETTIUpdated 6:17 PM MST, March 18, 2024Share

An attorney facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C.

Stefanie Lambert was arrested by U.S. Marshals after a hearing over possible sanctions against her for disseminating confidential emails from Dominion Voting Systems, the target of conspiracy theories over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. Lambert obtained the Dominion emails by representing Patrick Byrne, a prominent funder of election conspiracy theorists who is being sued by Dominion for defamation.

In a statement, the Marshals office said Lambert was arrested on “local charges.” A Michigan judge earlier this month issued a bench warrant for Lambert after she missed a hearing in her case, in which she’s charged with four felonies for accessing voting machines in a search for evidence of a conspiracy theory against Trump. Lambert had earlier, unsuccessfully, sued to overturn Trump’s loss in Michigan.

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Earlier Monday, Lambert had acknowledged passing on the records from Dominion Voting Systems to “law enforcement.” She then attached an affidavit that included some of the leaked emails and was 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 case in Michigan. The rest of the documents were posted to an account under Leaf’s name on X, the social platform formally known as Twitter.

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