ST. PAUL, Minn. — An arbitration panel has ordered MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a software engineer for breach of contract in a dispute over data that Lindell claims proves that China interfered in the U.S. 2020 elections and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden.
But Lindell told The Associated Press on Thursday that he has no intention of paying and that he expects the dispute to land in court.
Lindell, a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the 2020 presidential election, launched his "Prove Mike Wrong Challenge," as part of the "Cyber Symposium" he staged in South Falls, South Dakota, in August 2021, to further his theories. Lindell offered through one of his companies a $5 million reward for anyone who could prove that "packet captures" and other data he released there were not valid data "from the November 2020 election."
Robert Zeidman entered the challenge with a 15-page report that concluded the data from Lindell did not "contain packet data of any kind and do not contain any information related to the November 2020 election." A panel of contest judges that included a Lindell attorney declined to declare Zeidman a winner. So Zeidman filed for arbitration under the contest rules.
After conducting an evidentiary hearing in Minneapolis in January, the three arbitrators on Wednesday ordered Lindell to pay Zeidman $5 million.
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