Stefanie Lambert, an attorney known as aligned with former President Donald Trump, turned herself in Thursday to authorities in Michigan following a judge’s earlier warrant.
The warrant came after she failed to appear for a hearing that followed a lack of compliance with procedural demands for fingerprinting and DNA sampling amid a criminal case. The case involves criminal charges of improperly taking possession of election equipment after the 2020 presidential race. The alleged scheme mirrored developments in multiple other states as allies/supporters of Trump reportedly attempted to covertly access the equipment used in the election that year amid a mad dash to find evidence supporting Trump’s debunked claims of extensive fraud.
Charged alongside Lambert in the Michigan case are multiple other defendants including Matthew DePerno, who was Republicans’ nominee for state attorney general in the 2022 elections. Lambert, meanwhile, was actually arrested in Washington, D.C., in recent days following the Michigan warrant after she showed up for court proceedings on another dispute stemming from the election lies.
Specifically, the backdrop for the D.C. proceedings was defamation litigation filed by Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company named in conspiracy theories about the 2020 race that subsequently challenged in court promulgators of the lies including businessman Patrick Byrne, whose legal representation Lambert was handling. She was facing accusations of leaking materials provided by the company amid the discovery process, which involves the routine procedures ahead of trial in which preparatory information is shared. Lambert defensively claimed in a statement provided to ABC News that she was simply passing along information regarding (alleged) criminal acts.
One of the recipients allegedly then posted online some of the materials tracing through Lambert, and a judge directed that Lambert be blocked, for now, from accessing the discovery materials.
Elsewhere, prosecutors are pushing to swiftly put Trump himself on trial in what would be his first such proceedings, which would deal with allegations of falsifying business records in connection to hush money given to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 elections.
