Pro-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert surrendered Thursday to Michigan authorities in connection with her 2020 election tampering indictment. This followed a tumultuous week where she was labeled a fugitive and spent a night in jail after being arrested in Washington, DC.
The special prosecutor who charged Lambert in Michigan, confirmed that she turned herself in Thursday morning and appeared in Oakland County Circuit Court. The judge ruled that the Michigan bench warrant is now set aside, and she was taken into custody for the sole purpose of collecting her DNA and fingerprints.
Lambert's attorney also confirmed that she surrendered as she had pledged to do after being released by a local DC judge earlier in the week. Her fingerprints will not be entered into the system until further order of the court, as she has been fighting an effort by prosecutors to take her fingerprints.
Additionally, her mugshot will be taken as per a source familiar with the matter. The surrender came after Lambert's arrest at the federal courthouse in DC. She was taken into custody by US marshals immediately after participating in a hearing in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against her client, ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, regarding his false claims about the 2020 election.
The hearing in the defamation case was related to Lambert's recent leak of internal Dominion emails, which she obtained through her representation of Byrne. However, Lambert's arrest in DC and her subsequent surrender in Michigan were due to a warrant issued after she failed to appear at recent hearings in her criminal case.
She was indicted last year in connection with an attempted election system breach in Michigan, one of several incidents in battleground states where Donald Trump supporters sought to prove voter-fraud theories after he lost the 2020 election.
