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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nicholas Riccardi

Defendant's attorney in Dominion Voting defamation case releases company emails, risking sanctions

An attorney charged with illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election acknowledged in a court filing Monday that she disseminated numerous confidential emails from a voting machine company in a separate case.

In a filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., attorney Stefanie Lambert acknowledged passing on the records from Dominion Voting Systems to “law enforcement.” She then attached an affidavit that included some of the leaked emails and was signed by Dar Leaf, a county sheriff in northern Michigan who has investigated false claims of widespread election fraud from the 2020 election, to a filing in her own case in Michigan. The rest of the documents were posted to an account under Leaf's name on X, the social platform formally known as Twitter.

Lambert obtained the confidential records shortly after joining the legal team of a prominent election denier Dominion is suing for defamation, according to court records. Previously, she had sued unsuccessfully to overturn Trump's 2020 loss and faces a bench warrant in Michigan after missing a March 7 hearing in the voting machine case there. Leaf did not respond to requests for comment.

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