MyPillow CEO and pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell must pay $4,508 in attorneys' fees out of his management company to a man who beat his "Prove Mike Wrong" challenge on voter fraud, according to the news site Law & Crime.
Federal Magistrate Judge Dulce J. Foster made the ruling after finding that "Lindell Management LLC was admittedly 'delinquent' in its responses to document production requests [Robert] Zeidman made in post-judgment discovery, requests that took at least 11 hours for the petitioner’s lawyers to work on."
Zeidman, a Nevada-based cybersecurity expert who himself voted twice for former President Trump, responded to a challenge laid down by Lindell to prove his claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged wrong. He offered a prize of $5 million.
Earlier this year, a federal district court upheld an arbitration judgment that Lindell must pay up.
Lindell, who is being sued by voting system companies Dominion and Smartmatic over his election fraud claims, has raged against the contest decision, complaining "I have $10K to my name!"
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Lindell, whose MyPillow products have long been a mainstay of advertising on right-wing media, has been one of the most vocal conspiracy theorists pushing claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He has hosted "cyber symposiums" trying to gather any purported evidence for his claims, and filed a "petition" to the Supreme Court urging it to nullify the election, which they refused to act on.
As his claims have grown wilder, Lindell has found his products removed from retail shelves, and his speaking slots on even right-wing cable networks limited. He fought with Fox News after his commercials briefly vanished from the air, claiming to be a victim of "cancel culture," although the network reportedly only paused his advertising because of a payment dispute.
