Attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell have released the search warrant that FBI investigators used to seize the Trump ally's cell phone, showing agents took the CEO and high-profile election denier's phone as part of an investigation into whether Lindell and others may have violated three federal statutes through an alleged election security breach in Colorado.
According to the search warrant, which was uploaded to the court docket in Lindell’s lawsuit against the FBI Wednesday after some of its contents were first reported by news outlets, Lindell is listed as one of seven subjects in the federal government’s investigation, along with Mesa County, Colorado, election clerk Tina Peters—who has already been indicted by state prosecutors—and other election workers and right-wing allies.
The investigation stems from an alleged breach of election equipment last year in Mesa County, Colorado, in which data from the county’s voting machines was allegedly copied and shared online as part of a broader effort on the far right to prove fraud in the 2020 presidential election, which there is no evidence to support.
Peters, who allegedly helped facilitate the breach, appeared onstage at an event hosted by Lindell to speak about the county’s election security after the breach occurred, and Lindell initially told reporters he spent $200,000 to fund her legal defense, though he later walked back those claims and told the New York Times he did not actually fund it.
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