One day after a federal judge tore into an "abuse of the court system" and "frivolous" behavior on the part of Patrick Byrne and his counsel, the ex-Overstock CEO purported to put the "misguided" jurist "on notice" of potential criminal exposure.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Donald Trump appointee sitting in Washington, D.C., has been assigned for years to the case that began with Dominion Voting Systems as the plaintiff and now names Liberty Vote in the caption, following a sale to Republican former election official Scott Leiendecker's company.
Byrne, one of several figures who reportedly insisted behind the scenes at the White House in late 2020 and elsewhere that an international corporate cabal stole the election from Trump, was hit with the defamation suit the next year.
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By 2024, a U.S. magistrate judge made the "rare" move to disqualify Byrne's indicted "Kraken" attorney Stefanie Lambert for "intentional, dangerous, and relentless misconduct." In that massive discovery breach, "username-and-password access" to the "entire repository" of Dominion discovery documents was handed to a 2020 election-denying sheriff, a non-party to the case.
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