Judge orders Mike Lindell to pay millions after losing his own challenge

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is being forced to pay up after losing the 2021 'Prove Mike Wrong' challenge.

Lindell has 30 days to pay the $5 million to the plaintiff in the arbitration case, Robert Zeidman.

“In 2021, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell offered $5 million to anyone who could refute his claim that he had data showing voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election,” The Washington Post reported. “Now, he must pay that award to a 64-year-old Nevada man, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.”

According to the ruling by U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim, Zeidman “is awarded $5 million plus post-judgment interest from April 19, 2023, to be paid within 30 days after the issuance of this order, in accordance with the arbitral award.”

Lindell “claimed to have data showing Chinese interference in the 2020 race. If anyone could 'Prove Mike Wrong,' as the challenge was called, and show that the data was unrelated to the election, he would get paid, he said Lindell ahead of August 2021 'cyber symposium' held in South Dakota where contestants would review files,” The Washington Post reported.

“Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert who voted for Trump twice, did just that, a federal judge in Minnesota ruled Wednesday, upholding an earlier ruling by a private arbitration panel. Zeidman was owes $5 million plus interest, Judge John Tunheim wrote in his ruling Wednesday.The decision is the latest development in a years-long effort to reclaim the award, after Zeidman found that the data did not were related to the 2020 election,” WaPo continued.

Zeidman said he felt “a little more optimistic” about receiving money after Wednesday's ruling.

“I still think the chances of him seeing it are probably slim,” he said. “But again, I'd like people to get the lesson that it's okay to challenge your own beliefs.”

Although Lindell told NBC News that he will likely appeal the decision in the “corrupt” case, Zeidman's attorney, Brian Glasser, noted that the money will still have to be paid.

“If you want to stop the collection effort, you have to post bail,” he said, adding that if Lindell doesn't, “we have the right to use collection mechanisms to try to find the money.”

Lindell explained to him NBC news in a telephone interview “that Lindell Management LLC is the company that organized the event, not him personally, and that he has no cash.”

His pillow company is “fine,” he clarified, but told the network, “I don't have any money.”

“I have a pickup truck and a house that I live in. That's it,” he said.

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