A federal judge disqualified defense attorney Stefanie Lambert from Peter Byrne’s legal team in the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems after she admitted to releasing thousands of pages of confidential information relating to the trial, the Associated Press reports.
U.S. District Court Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya wrote in his opinion kicking Lambert off the case, “Lambert’s repeated misconduct raises the serious concern that she became involved in this litigation for the sheer purpose of gaining access to and publicly sharing Dominion’s protected discovery.” Lambert provided copies of files both sides agreed were confidential and for which the judge issued a protective order to a Michigan election-denying sheriff who claims he’s running an independent investigation into the 2020 election. The files contained proprietary Dominion files.
Lambert will be tried for her role in illegally transmitting polling records after the 2020 election as part of Donald Trump’s Stop the Steal fraud. She faces four felony charges in Michigan state court including unauthorized access to a computer and using a computer to commit a crime.