MyPillow founder Mike Lindell continues to claim his many legal battles have left him without any money.
“I’m in ruins,” Lindell told U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols during a hearing April 16 in Washington, D.C., ABC News reported.
Smartmatic, a voting machine company, asked Nichols in March to hold Lindell in contempt, claiming Lindell has avoided paying a court-ordered sanction of $56,369 to Smartmatic to cover the cost of litigating what the company describes in its motion as “Lindell’s frivolous claims.”
Lindell, though, has for years claimed he has no money. In 2023, for instance, Lindell told the Associated Press that he could no longer afford to pay his attorneys.
“I borrowed everything I can. Nobody will lend me any money anymore,” Lindell said during the hearing, according to ABC News. “I can’t turn back time … but I will tell you, I don’t have any money.”
Lindell became a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump’s claims of fraud after the 2020 presidential election. Multiple recounts, reviews and audits have confirmed the results of the election were legitimate.
Trump official asked IRS about Mike Lindell audit
In March, a Trump administration official asked the IRS to review an audit of Lindell, according to reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
David Eisner, a Treasury Department official, wrote in an email to the IRS that Lindell, “a high-profile friend of the president,” received his second audit letter in two years and was “concerned that he may have been inappropriately targeted,” the reports say.
However, the IRS didn’t act on Eisner’s email, instead passing it along to the agency’s inspector general, the reports say. Lindell said in interviews that he had only reached out to try to resolve an issue with the employee retention credit his company claimed during the pandemic.
Is Mike Lindell involved in other lawsuits?
Lindell is a part of several other lawsuits, including a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems in 2021.
Lindell is also on the hook to pay $5 million to a software engineer who was able to debunk data Lindell claimed proved that China interfered in the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled last year, USA TODAY reported.
In December 2024, a judge in Minnesota ordered MyPillow to pay DHL, a global delivery service, nearly $778,000 for unpaid bills and legal costs. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported in early March that FedEx sued MyPillow for allegedly not paying more than $9 million in shipping costs.
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