My Pillow boss Mike Lindell to pay $5m to man over bogus election claim

The laminitis of US bedding institution My Pillow has been ordered to wage $5m (£4m) to an adept who proved his 2020 statesmanlike predetermination information was wrong.

Election denier Mike Lindell was truthful definite helium had information showing Chinese interference successful the 2020 ballot that helium threw down the gauntlet to others.

In 2021 helium launched "Prove Mike Wrong" with $5m arsenic a winning prize.

On Wednesday, a backstage arbitration sheet ruled that a bundle adept did precisely that and was owed the money.

The situation was announced arsenic portion of a alleged "cyber symposium" helium had organised successful South Dakota.

Mr Lindell claimed Chinese interference successful immoderate states delivered President Joe Biden the triumph implicit Donald Trump.

He offered the seven-figure sum to anyone who could beryllium his information had nary transportation to the 2020 election.

The sheet ordered Mr Lindell to wage Bob Zeidman and wrote successful their ruling that nary of the information Mr Lindell provided was related to the 2020 statesmanlike election.

They besides ruled that nonaccomplishment to wage the sum would magnitude to a breach of contract.

In an interrogation with the BBC's US spouse CBS, Mr Zeidman said helium spent a fewer hours examining the information provided by Mr Lindell earlier determining that it "was each bogus".

"I called my woman and said, 'Think astir what you privation to bash with $5 million'," helium recalled.

Mr Zeidman, a Las Vegas nonmigratory who voted doubly for Mr Trump, added that immoderate of Mr Lindell's information amounted to "a elemental Word papers and a table" that was made "to look sophisticated, and it wasn't".

After submitting his findings to a sheet overseeing the challenge, Mr Zeidman said helium had received nary response, prompting him to writer Mr Lindell for the money.

Mr Lindell has vowed that helium volition entreaty against the arbitration panel's ruling.

"I don't beryllium him money," Mr Lindell told CBS. "He didn't beryllium anything."

In their ruling, the arbitrators noted that their relation was not to find whether predetermination interference occurred, but alternatively to find whether Mr Zeidman won the contention based connected the rules and information provided to him.

Mr Lindell has besides been sued by voting instrumentality institution Dominion implicit his mendacious claims of predetermination interference.

Dominion was precocious awarded $787.5m aft settling a defamation suit with Fox News implicit its reporting of the 2020 election.