CNS News– Stefanie Lambert, a pro-Trump lawyer, was arrested on Monday after a court hearing regarding her recent leak of internal emails belonging to Dominion Voting Systems. Lambert faced an existing arrest warrant for failing to appear at recent court hearings in her separate criminal case in Michigan, where she was charged with conspiring to seize voting machines after the 2020 election.
Lambert, along with a group of election deniers, disrupted one of Dominion’s defamation lawsuits by publicly leaking thousands of the company’s internal emails, using the disclosures to revive false claims about voter fraud. The controversy arose when Lambert provided the confidential Dominion documents to Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, a proponent of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, who then posted more than 2,000 internal Dominion documents on his social media account.
Lambert had access to the Dominion files because she represents former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who is being sued for defamation by the voting company over his 2020 election lies. As part of the case, they have access to “discovery” from Dominion, whose lawyers said they have already turned over more than a million documents.
During a hearing in Byrne’s defamation case in Washington, DC, Lambert was told to stay behind as the hearing concluded. Two federal marshals then went inside and locked the doors, and Lambert was never seen exiting the courtroom. The US Marshals Service confirmed Lambert’s arrest, stating that she was being held on local charges related to her Michigan-based criminal case.
The Dominion leaks have diverted attention from the alleged 2020 election-related defamation, and more hearings will be needed to address the matter and consider potential consequences for Lambert. Dominion’s lawyers also said that company employees are receiving new death threats following the disclosures.
Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya ordered that Lambert be restricted from accessing the database containing the Dominion documents. The judge said there would be a future hearing to determine whether Lambert violated a court order by leaking the Dominion files – and that Byrne would need to appear and answer questions.
Lambert admitted during the hearing that she gave the materials to Leaf, claiming she was allowed to do so because she was reporting a crime to “law enforcement.” Dominion has denied the claims of Serbian meddling in the US election, calling them “xenophobic.” Lambert and Byrne were accused of “using these lawsuits to spread yet more lies” by Dominion’s lawyer Davida Brook.
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Dominion is suing several other pro-Trump figures who peddled similar lies about the 2020 election, including former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, as well as right-wing cable networks Newsmax and One America News. Dominion settled a defamation suit against Fox News last year for $787 million in the largest publicly known defamation settlement in US history.