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Mike Lindell stiffs everybody [1]

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Date: 2025-03-01

Mike Lindell's company, MyPillow, Inc., owes $8.8 million In shipping charges to FedEx. As a corporation, he has some shielding, but it can't be much.

The lawsuit was filed on February 27th. FedEx's shipping contract with Lindell's company was originally made in 2021, and then revised in January of 2024. He started missing payments in September. Lindell kept promising payments would be made, but he didn't make them. FedEx offered payment plans but Lindell kept ignoring those, too. At that point FedEx put him on a cash only basis.

At the beginning of December, FedEx stop shipping for MyPillow altogether.

The lawsuit is pretty dry. It's only five pages long.

If you remember, Lindell put out this contest "Prove Mike Wrong," where if somebody could prove that Mike's data set did not show fraud in the 2020 election, they won the prize. A knowledgeable computer programmer proved Mike wrong and claimed the $5 million prize. Mike didn't pay up and the winner took him to court. Lindell was ordered to also pay the winner's legal fees in August, but he's paid neither of them so far. Not surprising considering the FedEx situation, and his declining sales. Last I remember he had to sell off manufacturing equipment that was needed to make the pillows.

Lindell also hasn't been paying his lawyers in the case, and lost his third lawyer in June of last year.

He also still has to deal with the Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines lawsuits against him.

Cable companies stopped letting him advertise when he stopped paying their bills. And then major store brands refused to stock his pillows anymore.

DHL is also suing MyPillow for $778,000 that is owed to them. Lindell was ordered to start paying them the money in 24 monthly installment starting in May of 2023, but he only got up to $65,000. He originally owed them $799, 000 but after the payment and then interest and lawyer fees, it went up to the current $778,000.

But wait, there's more. A company named Lifetime Funding, which fronts money to cash poor entities in exchange for future receivables, is also trying to collect from Lindell. The company says that Lindell has actually made $300,000 from the deal. Lindell says that the interest rates are usurious and is fighting it under the RICO Act.

This time, he has attorneys again, and Lindell claims that he never realized that the effective interest rate on the $600,000 he was fronted against later sales would amount to 441%.

In Minnesota, where MyPillow is based, receivables purchases, unlike loans, are not subject to usury laws, according to Lifetime's motion to dismiss.

"In order to succeed in his claim, plaintiffs would have to establish that Lindell, a world famous businessman, who once had access to the Oval Office and the ear of the President of the United States, is on a par with the commercially illiterate consumer that the doctrine of unconscionability was designed to protect. Respectfully, this is preposterous," said the motion by Lifetime on January 23rd.

There's even an employee of Dominion that is suing Mike Lindell for defamation by targeting him specifically in his rantings about Dominion voting machines. This time, it was Lindell and Lindell's media platform Frankspeech that attacked Eric Coomer as part of Lindell's effort to "undermine the faith in American democracy and enrich himself in the process."

Lindell based his claims about Coomer on a single source named Joe Oltmann, an influential conservative podcast host. Coomer has also sued Oltmann along with other Trump connected defendants for defamation based on claims similar to the Lindell suit.

"Dr. Coomer has had an onslaught of harassment and creditable death threats issued against him … The results of the defendant's ongoing conduct are foreseeable and obscene," said Coomer's lawyers in their filing.

That was in April of 2022. In September of 2024, Lindell was back in court, still trying to get the case dismissed.

"Lindell's audience of election deniers certainly takes Lindell at his word, and calls for Dr. Coomer's execution continue to this day," wrote Coomer's attorneys.

US District Court Judge Nina Y. Wang said that a jury could find that Lindell defamed Coomer with actual malice, meaning he accused Coomer of election rigging with "reckless disregard" to whether it was true or not. Actual malice. That's the definition of defamation. Lindell didn't help matters much when during his deposition he called the judge "disgusting."

The main case of Dominion against Lindell is reaching a deadline of March 14th for dispositive motions, which is asking the court end a lawsuit in favor of a party. Dominion is only asking $1.3 billion from Lindell. Lindell hasn't filed bankruptcy, but he already knows how well that worked for Rudy Giuliani.

In October of 2023, Lindell's lawyers said he owed them millions in legal fees. He said he didn't have any money to pay them. How he's getting anyone to represent him now is questionable.

Smartmatic, in their suit against Lindell, was filed with unspecified damages. When they filed in 2022, they said the valuation of their company had dropped from $3 billion to $1 billion. I can't find anything current on the case.

January 14th, US District Court Carl J. Nichols ordered Lindell to pay $56,000 to Smartmatic as sanctions for making frivolous claims against Smartmatic in his RICO case against them. Smartmatic had been seeking $546,000, so it was only a small fraction of the legal fees requested.

Mike is still claiming voting machines are rigged. He just hasn't learned.

He spoke as CPAC on February 21st, and also visited Trump at the White House. Here are all his remarks to reporters afterwards. Amazing that Trump still sees the man, but has never offered him a job. He was with Trump for two and a half hours. Talking about voting machines and paper ballots took that long?

Mike has a not bright future, financially. He got kicked out of the warehouse he was using back in March of 2024 because he owed $200,000 to the landlord.

Mike says he won't ever run for office until voting machines are outlawed. We can be thankful for something.

This is a very funny video interview of Lindell where Jimmy Kimmel conned Mike into doing it from inside a claw-get-the-toy machine. Then a fake Mike Lindell shows up and it's hilarious.

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