Election conspiracist Mike Lindell must pay $5M to expert who proved him wrong
Enlarge / MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on March 4, 2023, in National Harbor, Maryland. (credit: Getty Images | Alex Wong )
Election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell was ordered to pay $5 million to the electrical engineer and inventor who won the "Prove Mike Wrong" contest in which Lindell offered the prize to anyone who could prove that his data had nothing to do with the 2020 presidential election.
Lindell, the My Pillow CEO who helped finance Donald Trump's baseless election protests, was ordered to pay Robert Zeidman $5 million within 30 days in a ruling issued yesterday by the American Arbitration Association Commercial Arbitration Tribunal.
"Based on the foregoing analysis, Mr. Zeidman performed under the contract," a three-member arbitration panel wrote. The panel found that Zeidman proved the files provided by Lindell to contest participants did not contain actual data from the election.