MyPillow founder Mike Lindell’s THIRD lawyer deserts him in $5m ‘prove Mike wrong’ dispute

MyPillowfounder Mike Lindell has lost yet another lawyer involved in a civil lawsuit he hopes will avoid him paying out $5m in award money he offered in an election fraud evidence competition.

Lindell, an avid Donald Trump supporter, launched the ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ challenge in 2021 and promised to pay the huge prize to anyone who could prove alleged evidence of 2020 election fraud false.

Computer forensics expert Robert Zeidman did just that, but Lindell refused to pay and tried to renege on his offer.

However, a private arbitration panel in April 2023 ruled that Lindell must pay Zeidman, which the businessman then tried to challenge. A district judge has ruled that the panel’s decision stood.

Lindell is appealing the February decision by the district judge, Newsweek reported, but has now lost members of his legal team.

During an appearance on a right-wing online show called The Glazov Gang, the pillow magnate said the prize would go to “anybody that can prove the election data that I have from the 2020 election was false, is not from the 2020 election”.

He claimed the data he had would show “an attack from China” on voting machines during the 2020 election.

Zeidman entered the contest and successfully showed that a tranche of internet traffic data Mr Lindell claimed was evidence of Chinese interference in the 2020 presidential election had nothing to do with that election at all.

However, when Lindell’s company, Lindell Management, refused to pay up, he turned to the binding arbitration specified as the venue for resolving any contest-related disputes in the rules Mr Lindell published when he made his offer.

In March, Lindell was greenlit to appeal the district court ruling that he must pay the $5m, but at the same