Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow, is being taken to federal court over a challenge in which he said he would pay $5 million to anyone who could prove his data — which he claimed showed the 2020 presidential election was stolen — wasn’t from the November 2020 election.
After announcing the challenge in 2021, Las Vegas-based software expert Bob Zeidman went to work to show he could “Prove Mike Wrong,” as the challenge’s name encouraged.
Ziedman shared with CBS MoneyWatch that he was able to determine the data Lindell was promoting “was all bogus” fairly quickly.
However, the pillow entrepreneur wasn’t as forthcoming with the prize as he was with his conspiracies, resulting in Zeidman taking him before an arbitration panel.
On April 19, the three-person panel, selected by Lindell LLC, came to its decision, agreeing with Zeidman that the data was not connected to the last presidential election. It then ruled that Lindell must pay the tech expert within 30 days.
Now, Ziedman, who hasn’t received any of his winnings, is taking Lindell to federal court to have the arbitrators’ decision legitimized, according to recent court documents.
“Mr. Lindell should honor his agreement, as confirmed by the three arbitrators, and pay me,” Zeidman wrote in an email to CBS MoneyWatch on Friday. “I’ve gotten no money or response from Lindell other than his lawyer Alec Beck filing a Petition to Vacate Arbitration Award today, though he’s given no reason. He says that a reason will be forthcoming at a later date.”
According to a statement from Lindell last month, the My Pillow CEO doesn’t agree with the ruling from the arbitrators or with what Ziedman claims.
“I don’t owe him any money,” Lindell said. “He didn’t prove anything.”
While speaking with CNN, Lindell reiterated this sentiment on Friday.
“This is a complete sham. A complete sham,” Lindell told CNN by phone Friday. “The bottom line is this thing is wrong, and I’m not stopping until we prove him wrong.”
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