Mike Lindell dumped by attorneys as he fights to avoid paying $5M 'Prove Mike Wrong' prize

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been trying to get out of paying the $5 million he owes to Nevada-based software developer and computer forensics expert Robert Zeidman, who won Lindell's "Prove Mike Wrong" challenge in 2021 — a victory that U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim upheld as perfectly legitimate in a February 21 ruling.

But according to Law & Crime's Brandi Buchman, he will be waging his legal battle without two lawyers who have now abandoned him: Andrew Parker and Alec Beck, both with the Minneapolis-based firm Parker Daniels Kibort.

At his "Cyber Symposium" event in South Dakota in 2021, Lindell offered to pay $5 million to anyone who could disprove his claim that Chinese government officials helped now-President Joe Biden steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump.

Zeidman took the challenge and claims that, because he thoroughly disproved Lindell's conspiracy theory, the far-right MyPillow CEO owes him the prize.

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Lindell insists that he doesn't owe the money because Zeidman didn't disprove his election claims, but Tunheim agreed with Zeidman. Nonetheless, Lindell continues his fight with Zeidman.

Buchman explains, "As two of his attorneys withdraw from his case, 2020 election denier and pillow magnate Mike Lindell has been greenlit to appeal a federal judge's ruling last month affirming he must pay $5 million to a software engineer who defeated an election data challenge that Lindell himself issued. A clerk filed the notice of appeal in Robert Zeidman v. Lindell Management Inc. on March 22 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Missouri, and a briefing schedule followed."

According to Buchman, Parker and Beck officially withdrew from the case on March 20. But Lindell "appears undeterred" and is now being represented by Minnesota-based attorney Thomas Miller.

Buchman notes, "Meanwhile, a schedule has now been set for the appeal: transcripts and appendices must be submitted by May 13 along with Lindell Management LLC’s brief."

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Since the 2020 presidential election, Lindell has claimed that Trump was the real winner and that the election was stolen from him — a conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked.

Lindell has been sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, both of whom he falsely accused, without evidence, of helping Biden steal the election.

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