Timothy Lamb, Democratic candidate for North Dakota attorney general.
FARGO (KFGO) – Democratic candidate for North Dakota attorney general Timothy Lamb called Tuesday for an outside investigation into deleted state records following the 2022 death of former Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, comparing the situation to an “Epstein file scandal”.
On KFGO’s “News and Views” with Joel Heitkamp, Lamb argued that the state needs a more aggressive legal watchdog to restore public trust. He criticized incumbent Republican Attorney General Drew Wrigley and called for an independent counsel to examine email exchanges between Stenehjem and former state Sen. Ray Holmberg that were deleted shortly after Stenehjem died.
State records previously showed that Stenehjem’s administrative assistant, Liz Brocker, deleted the former attorney general’s state email account. Brocker later took a position with the Burleigh County State’s Attorney’s Office.
“In effect, Joel, what we have here is a North Dakota state Epstein file scandal,” Lamb said during the broadcast. “Liz Brocker, to protect Wayne, destroyed them. One of the things I would have done is I would have had an outside investigation on that and really brought to light what happened and surfaced those emails.”
Lamb also cited transparency concerns regarding the North Dakota Industrial Commission, pointing to its use of executive sessions and a recent audit of the North Dakota Development Fund. The three-member commission oversees the Bank of North Dakota, state mill operations, and multi-million-dollar economic initiatives.
“Transparency is the issue here,” Lamb said. “We’ve got to have an open and honest government.”
Wrigley, who is seeking reelection, has previously maintained that state and federal reviews found no criminal wrongdoing surrounding the deletion of the email accounts.
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