Michigan lawyer Stephanie Lambert was arrested Monday in Washington, D.C. The arrest came after she failed to turn herself in following a bench warrant issued for her arrest more than a week ago in the criminal case alleging she illegally accessed voting machines in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Lambert was arrested in a U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia courtroom by the U.S. Marshals Service, according to Brady McCarron, a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service.
Lambert was in court Washington, D.C. Monday to represent former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne in a separate lawsuit, according to multiple outlets. Byrne − who participated in failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election — faces a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.
As of Tuesday morning, Lambert was in the custody of the Metropolitan Police Department. She was charged with “Fugitive from Justice,” a holding charge, police department spokesperson Tom Lynch wrote in an email.
In the case against her in Michigan, Lambert − an ally of former President Donald Trump − failed to show up for a court hearing in Oakland County March 7 regarding a court order issued several months earlier requiring her to undergo fingerprinting with which she had not yet complied. A bench warrant was issued against Lambert.
During a hearing last Wednesday, Oakland County Circuit Court Chief Judge Jeffery Matis presiding over Lambert’s case denied a request to set aside the bench warrant after Lambert had days to turn herself in. Lambert is fighting the fingerprinting order in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
In court filings, she argues that her failure to appear for the March 7 hearing was not willful, citing a communication breakdown with her previous attorney. She also argues that the fingerprinting order violates her right to due process and asserts that the special prosecutor in the case against her will improperly use the information to compare with evidence collected from the voting equipment she allegedly handled.
Among her efforts related to the 2020 election, Lambert participated in a Michigan lawsuit that served as a vehicle for conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems and was also involved in an unsuccessful legal bid spearheaded by attorney Sidney Powell to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in Michigan and award the state’s Electoral College delegates to Trump.
Amid legal setbacks in the cases related to the 2020 election, Lambert traveled across Michigan to convince local officials to carry out their own election audits.
Michigan voting machine case: Bench warrant issued for pro-Trump Michigan lawyer facing criminal charges
Last August, Lambert was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly joining other Trump allies in a conspiracy to gain illegal access to voting machines after the 2020 election. She has repeatedly blasted the special prosecutor’s review that led to the charges. She has accused Democrats of trying to silence her in a plot to keep Trump out of office in a video posted to her Telegram account on the eve of her indictment.
When Muskegon County Prosecutor DJ Hilson announced the charges against Lambert last August, he noted that he took the unusual step of petitioning to convene a grand jury. “These charges were authorized by an independent citizens grand jury,” Hilson said in a statement at the time. “Protecting the election process is of the utmost importance for our state and country.” He called the prosecution “an important step in that direction.”
Contact Clara Hendrickson at chendrickson@freepress.com or 313-296-5743. Follow her on X, previously called Twitter, @clarajanehen.
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ATLANTA — For a period of time this season, Michigan basketball was in contention to win the Big Ten regular season championship. And they hoisted a trophy after winning the Big Ten Tournament.
But head coach Dusty May says this team, for many reasons, has become a team with a chip on its shoulder.
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TOLEDO, Ohio – Holy Toledo!
The Michigan State hockey team’s season ended in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday on a Cornell goal with 10 seconds remaining.
The top-ranked Spartans and No. 1 seed in the Toledo, Ohio regional dominated the first two periods, holding a 3-2 lead and outshooting its opponent 30-9. But the Big Red stormed back with a major push in the third.
After tying the game with 7:22 remaining, it received its first power play of the game with 1:39 left. Cornell’s power play ranks bottom-three in the country but struck at an opportune time. Sullivan Mack deposited a cross-seam pass from Charlie Major to stun MSU, the Big Ten regular season and conference tournament champions.
The Spartans (26-7-4) had prevailed through several late nervy moments during the Big Ten Tournament, but didn’t have any time for a last-ditch effort Thursday following Cornell’s go-ahead goal.
They hung on for a 1-0 win over Notre Dame in the Big Ten semifinals and outlasted Ohio State 4-3 in double overtime in the final after blowing a two-goal third-period lead.
The Big Red pulled off what 30th-year head coach Mike Schafer, who is set to retire after this season, called a “miracle on ice” in the Eastern College Athletic Conference semifinals to keep its season alive.
It forced overtime against No. 1 seed Quinnipiac with a shorthanded goal with just over a minute left and won in overtime.
It carried momentum into the ECAC championship against No. 2 seed Clarkson and earned a 3-1 victory for the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAAs. Cornell advances to face No. 2 seed Boston University – an 8-3 winner over No. 3 seed Ohio State in the other semifinal – on Saturday.
MSU was living in the offensive zone for the majority of the second period, peppering Ian Shane with shots. But it remained a one-shot game for most of the period, despite the Big Red managing just one shot through the first 14 minutes. Its second was a major one.
Forward Charlie Major blasted a one-timer from the top of the circle past MSU goalie Trey Augustine to tie the game. The Spartans’ second line retook the lead on the ensuing shift. Shane misplayed the puck behind his net, and Karsen Dorwart accepted his gift, scoring on a wraparound.
MSU received the fast start it was looking for. A strong forecheck forced a Cornell defensive zone turnover, and Joey Larson retrieved the puck along the wall and found Gavin O’Connell open in front. His quick shot beat Shane, giving the team a 1-0 lead just over seven minutes in.
The Big Red responded at the 15:02 mark of the first before MSU retook the lead in the final minute on the first power play of the game. Charlie Stramel, a first-round pick of the Wild, was knocked down in front battling for positioning, and the puck found him as soon as he got back up. He dished a no-look pass to Daniel Russell back door for an easy tap-in goal with 29 seconds remaining.
The Spartans’ season ends in an NCAA regional for a second straight year as a No. 1 seed. They lost to Michigan in the regional final last season.
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