Michigan MAGAt News: Michigan Ballot Tabulator Suspect Claims She Has Been Indicted
According to Bridge Michigan, one of the suspects in a tabulator conspiracy, Stefanie Lambert, claims she has been indicted.
“My attorney has been informed that I have been indicted by DJ Hilson, the special prosecutor in Michigan, working at the request of (Attorney General) Dana Nessel,” Stefanie Lambert said Wednesday on a conservative podcast, where she bashed the pending criminal action.
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Lambert is one of nine suspects Nessel referred to a special prosecutor last fall, citing an alleged tabulator tampering plot that aimed to prove former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims the 2020 contest was rigged against him.
Court records show Hilson convened a secret grand jury to review evidence. It is the grand jury that would decide any indictments. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Lambert’s claims or the timing of any potential charges.
Other suspects in the case include former state Rep. Daire Rendon of Lake City, Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf, officials with the Cyber Ninjas security firm and former Republican attorney general candidate Matt DePerno, who did not return a voicemail seeking comment late Wednesday.
The move has been anticipated since the prosecutor appointed to conduct this investigation when Dana Nessel recused last year, DJ Hilson, obtained a ruling earlier this month that unwarranted possession of voting equipment is a crime.
Lambert’s co-conspirators would make this a fairly important development. Dar Leaf is a sheriff who made excuses for the seriousness of the militia-tied kidnapping plot against Governor Whitmer. Cyber Ninjas, which has had backing from Patrick Byrne, Mike Flynn, and Christina Bobb, is better known for their role in the Arizona audit. And Matt DePerno was the GOP nominee for Attorney General last year, which is why Nessel recused from this investigation.
Per Bernie Kerik’s privilege log, DePerno also had at least three contacts with Rudy Giuliani’s team:
- 12/9/2020: Cyber Forensics Team Company Overview and CVs Sullivan Strickler.pdf
- 12/14/2020: FINAL ANTRIM FORENSICS REPORT PRESS RELEASE AND TALKING POINTS FOR DISTRIBUTION.pdf
- 12/17/2020: Navarro POTUS Fraud report out.pdf
When Hilson got his ruling on the underlying law, it attracted almost no national attention.
But the news has the possibility of having national repercussions.
Meanwhile, another key Michigan MAGAt, failed gubernatorial primary candidate Ryan Kelley (who was arrested for vandalizng the inauguration platform last June), is expected to plead guilty at 10AM in DC.
Update: Here are the plea and the statement of offense for Kelley. He will be sentenced in October, and has yet to do the FBI interview that comes standard with these generic plea deals.
Update, 8/1: Matthew DePerno has, indeed, been indicted. He was arraigned today along with another of the tabulator alleged election fraudsters, former state Rep. Daire Rendon.
Thanks, EW, for keeping an eye on the Michigan of all this. It’s the only home state I’ve known since childhood, except that you never really know Michigan. It’s too multivalent, with too many tiny, refractory pockets that lie off the state highways, out of sight. The “urban” areas, so recently overtaken by GOP “managers,” have resumed independence in the Whitmer/Nessel/Benson era. Is it perfect now? Of course not. But it no longer feels like the laboratory of autocracy.
That’s moved on, to Wisconsin, Ohio, Tennessee, and the places it already was, like (always) Texas.
The War of Wills continues…
https://youtu.be/JPQCe1YupLw
Nice build of dread in that piece. But I think that war sounds more like the feel of Level Five.
https://youtu.be/UPVUGZa1h3E
Score!
Sheriff Dar Leaf.
Lol, okay. Step aside Joe Arpaio, there is a new leader in the clubhouse of stupidity.
At least y’all can claim it’s the heat. What’s our excuse in MI? Dunno.
Too many WASP fundies & militia nutters for too long, I guess. That shite rots the brain. Does AZ have the same kind of militia problems, or is that all north of you (OR/ID/MT/WY)?
Yes. Mostly northwestern AZ though. That is where Tim Mcveigh and Terry Nichols mostly emanated from.
I think bc he’s from East Bumfuck, he has never attracted the kind of state-wide power Arpaio had.
Plus, he’s REALLY militia adjacent.
Also a ‘constitutional sheriff’ IIRC, adding another layer of wingnuttery. His county must be so proud.
“Constitutional Sheriff”. Lol.
Those “constitutional” sheriffs, as far as I remember, are of the mind that the Constitution confers ultimate authority on local sheriffs, somehow. Good luck with that, sovereign citizen – I mean, constitutional sheriff.
From what I can tell, Leaf will be up for re-election in 2024. Hilson’s investigation will make things interesting. Leaf has run unopposed in the past. We will see if Hilson’s investigation gets anyone to run against him either in the primary or main election. And then we will see if Barry county citizens still want him as their sheriff.
Dar Leaf reminds me of Dan Daniels, the militia member and former sheriff from Polk County, FL, who once was regional coordinator of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, a white-supremacist group founded by David Duke.
According to SPLC, “The NAAWP, which denied connections to the Ku Klux Klan, fell apart after a 1997 report on ABC’s “Prime Time Live” showed Klan members communing with NAAWP followers at Daniels’ Florida ranch.”
That reminds me, Jonathan (Johnny) Pollock who I think was from Polk County, has never been apprehended, to my knowledge.
Yes. But I still have the Arpaio problem, unfortunately, so that still hurts. There are a lot of states not as big as Maricopa County….
Constitutional [sic] sheriffs from West Bumfuck, however, are immensely popular and well-known.
Jon Lopey runs with the CSPOA pack out here in the State of Jefferson.
https://archive.redding.com/news/siskiyou-county-sheriff-jon-lopey-says-hes-fighting-to-protect-rural-america-ep-374789887-354172121.html/
We all remember the occupation of Malheur in 2016. Don’t need another chapter in that book. Local law enforcement kept clear for a long time…Too long.
Most folks in this neckofthewoods got their concealed carry permits from these constitutional sheriffs and armed-up with their Glock muskets during the past few years. They’re hunkered down awaiting the war their sheriffs tell them is coming.
“My attorney has been informed that I have been indicted by DJ Hilson, the special prosecutor in Michigan, working at the request of (Attorney General) Dana Nessel,” Stefanie Lambert said Wednesday on a conservative podcast, where she bashed the pending criminal action.”
I’m quite sure her attorney did NOT recommend that she immediately go on a conservative podcast to comment on it.
So glad my origin state, Michigan isn’t dropping the ball. Lets hope that new home state New Mexico jumps on too. Lock them up.
OT: DJT’s lawyers Blanche and Lauro (both former federal prosecutors) met with SC and team this morning, ABC News reports. Supposedly they were explaining “why Trump should not be indicted” (we can guess who put them up to that).
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-attorneys-expected-meet-special-counsels-office-potential/story?id=101715722
I believe that’s a standard courtesy extended to all criminal targets immediately before indictments are issued. Nothin’ special about this meeting…
At least it makes clear to me that Lauro was brought on for the J6 component of Smuth’s investigation.
If anyone wants to hear what Lauro said to Fox News (“America Reports”) here is the link. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6331632263112
Trump sure is making Lauro earn his fees.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6331632263112
I listened to half of that Lauro interview.
That was all I could take.
Appears Trump attorney’s leading arguments are he is “he is leading in the polls” and he is running against Joe Biden.
Lauro also says, “Trump has done nothing wrong,” evidently ignoring the charges. Weak sauce.
Trump’s so-called defense may succeed in propaganda world, yet won’t stand up in court.
Zip to the end, it’s worth hearing one of the hosts scoff at him.
Christina Bobb seems to have had lots of pull over many people and several states:
“Lawsuit inadvertently produces new details about post-2020 chicanery” – 6/16/23
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“Christina Bobb — at the time, on air-personality at a conservative media outlet, before she formally joined Trump’s legal team — emailed the outgoing president’s advisers, urging them to have Rudy Giuliani pressure Mastriano.”
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“Previously unreported communications obtained by The Inquirer show that, two days after Bobb’s email, Trump himself called Mastriano — this time peddling lies about Dominion voting machines.”
“POTUS just called me,” Mastriano wrote in a Dec. 14, 2020, email with the subject line “Document from POTUS.” “He asked that I share the attached with you.”
“Mastriano was happy to oblige. He sent the email to an unidentified group of recipients, with findings from a debunked “study” of voting machines in Michigan, including a false claim that there was a “68% error rate in votes cast.”
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/lawsuit-inadvertently-produces-new-details-post-2020-chicanery-rcna89708
I am always, ALWAYS, going to mention that Ryan Kelley, even though he ACTUALLY SHOWED UP at the Capital on Jan. 6, did not get Trump’s endorsement for MI governor. But that’s very much Trump’s modus operandi. Apparently Dixon was seen as “most electable” out of the dozen or so GOP candidates. It was nice to see Whitmer shellac her.
Politico story says that “cyber” contact was Cyber Ninjas in AZ.
See the second paragraph after the block quote at the beginning.
It appears that Stefanie Lambert became deeply embedded in the pro-Trump nuttery, https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-lambert/
Among her other exploits, she participated as an attorney in Sidney Powell’s Michigan lawsuit, King v. Whitmer. She was brought in by Powell for the appeals, where she appears under the name Stefanie Juntilla. As a result of her involvement with that case, she is among the lawyers (including Powell) who were referred to state grievance commissions “for investigation and possible suspension or disbarment” (quoting from Judge Parker’s order).
Apologies if I did not use all the correct terms here – not a lawyer. My point is that she has some history.
Great article!
I agree this whole voting-machine case deserves national attention it hasn’t gotten. Even in Michigan, I couldn’t find coverage of Lambert’s claim in a quick glance at MLive and Freep (maybe because DJ isn’t confirming her rant?). Anyway, sounds like progress.