A lawyer accused of trying to tamper with voting machines in the 2020 presidential election and arrested following a hearing in a separate case told Newsweek she was acting to uphold the Constitution.
Stefanie Lambert was arrested after the Monday hearing in which she represented ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in his defamation lawsuit brought by electronic ballot company Dominion Voting Systems.
Lambert allegedly breached a confidentiality order by handing over information obtained in the defamation lawsuit to law enforcement, according to a March 13 court filing by attorneys representing Dominion. Lambert denied the claim.
“I have sworn an oath as an attorney to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and I will do just that,” she told Newsweek via email on Thursday when asked about the allegations. I will pursue truth and justice on behalf of my clients and country.”
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Dominion filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against Byrne for allegedly claiming that Dominion rigged its voting machines in Joe Biden’s favor during the 2020 election. It is part of a series of defamation lawsuits Dominion filed against prominent Trump supporters who allegedly made similar claims. In April 2023, Dominion settled its suit against Fox News for $787 million.
Lambert also released a statement to Newsweek from Byrne in which he denied wrongdoing and said he has passed on information about Dominion to law enforcement after reviewing a file.
“I have an obligation to provide this evidence to law enforcement, and I did just that. There was no ‘leak,'” it said.
On March 13, Dominion’s lawyers filed a motion concerning “an urgent matter” about an alleged breach of a confidentiality order in the defamation case that covers sensitive information about Dominion’s voting machines. They suggested that Lambert will continue to breach the confidentiality order.
“Dominion has to date received no assurance from Mr. Byrne’s counsel as to whether Ms. Lambert continues to retain Dominion confidential information or whether she has stopped violating the protective order or intends to take any remedial measures to cabin and remedy this breach,” they said.
They claim that Lambert sent the Dominion lawyers an email in which they said she confirmed “that it was her client, Mr. Byrne, who directed violation of the protective order, and her statements and conduct indicate every apparent intention of continuing to violate it.”
They also said that it was one of Byrne’s other lawyers, Robert Driscoll, who revealed the alleged breach to them.
In an email to Dominion’s lawyers, Driscoll wrote: “It has recently come to our attention that Confidential Discovery Material produced by Dominion in this case has been disclosed in a public filing in Michigan by Stefanie Lambert.”
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“Ms. Lambert had access to Confidential Discovery Material as an attorney for Patrick Byrne who was assisting in this litigation. Prior to her gaining access to any Confidential Discovery Material, she signed an Undertaking in which she agreed to use all Discovery Material.”
Newsweek sought email comment from Driscoll on Thursday.
Lambert is one of three people charged with tampering with voting machines after the 2020 election. Former Michigan Republican attorney general nominee Matthew DePerno and former Republican state Representative Daire Rendon were also charged.
On March 8, Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Jeffery S. Matis issued a bench warrant for Lambert for failing to provide fingerprints and a DNA sample, the Michigan Advance online news site reported. Lambert also failed to appear at a hearing the previous day, according to the site.
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