At the end of a hearing Monday in the defamation lawsuit by voting machine manufacturer Dominion against ex-Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, Byrne’s attorney, the prominent election conspiracy theorist Stefanie Lambert, was arrested by federal law enforcement inside the Washington, D.C., courtroom.
The arrest was on a bench warrant in Lambert’s own criminal case in Michigan after she missed a court date. She was indicted last year in that state for conspiring with others to unduly possess voting machines. The Detroit News was at Monday’s hearing and reported that after it concluded, “all attorneys and observers — except for Lambert — exited and U.S. marshals entered the room.”
On Tuesday, she was arraigned in Washington and charged with being a fugitive from justice, according to D.C. Superior Court records reviewed by HuffPost. She was released on an unsecured $10,000 bond.
The U.S. Marshals later said in a statement that Lambert had been arrested and “is currently being held on local charges,” according to CNN. Neither Lambert nor her attorney in the Michigan case, Daniel Hartman, responded to HuffPost’s request for comment Tuesday.
Lambert’s arrest in the courthouse came shortly after she acknowledged giving discovery documents from the Dominion case, which were protected by a court order, to a far-right sheriff in Michigan, with whom she’s worked in the past to pursue conspiracy theories about voting machines.
In a court filing Monday morning, Lambert wrote that the released documents weren’t covered by the protective order, in part because releasing them provided “transparency to the American public in defense of the truth.”
The arrest and the release of documents are both tied to the yearslong effort by Donald Trump and his allies to smear voting machines as unreliable and voting machine manufacturers as agents of mass fraud, despite lacking any evidence showing that such widespread voter fraud has occurred.
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