Mike Lindell

2022 - 9 - 13

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My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has phone seized by FBI at fast-food outlet (The Guardian)

Prominent proponent of Donald Trump's stolen election lie says he was questioned about Colorado electoral official Tina Peters.

“I said, ‘Come on, bring me to January 6. I don’t have a computer, that phone, everything was on everybody.” They won’t intimidate me. “They surrounded me at a Hardee’s and took my phone that I run all my business, everything with,” he said. “Well, it turns out they were the FBI.” [sued for defamation](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/06/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-sued-defamation-former-dominion-employee) by a Dominion Voting Systems employee, who claimed Lindell was engaged in “efforts to undermine faith in American democracy and enrich himself in the process”.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says the FBI seized his cellphone (CNBC)

Lindell, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump who has promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, said he was stopped by FBI agents ...

The reasons for the apparent seizure of Lindell's phone are unclear. She is accused of allowing unauthorized people to break into the county's election system in search of evidence supporting baseless election fraud theories espoused by Trump. I don't have a computer, my hearing aids run off this, everything runs off my phone.'"

Mike Lindell, MyPillow chief executive, says FBI agents seized his ... (PBS NewsHour)

The agents questioned him about Dominion Voting Systems, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and his connection to Doug Frank, an Ohio educator who claims voting ...

The charges against Peters and Knisley allege the two were involved in a “deceptive scheme which was designed to influence public servants, breach security protocols, exceed permissible access to voting equipment, and set in motion the eventual distribution of confidential information to unauthorized people.” meeting with community groups claiming to have evidence that voting machines were rigged in the 2020 election. In court records, prosecutors say Frank met with Peters and members of her staff in April 2021 in her office. Experts have described the unauthorized release as serious, saying it provided a potential “practice environment” that would allow anyone to probe for vulnerabilities that could be exploited during a future election. The Republican was elected in 2018 to oversee elections in Colorado’s Mesa County. The agents then told Lindell they had a warrant to seize his cellphone and ordered him to turn it over, he said.

Pillow salesman and Trump ally Mike Lindell says FBI served him ... (CNN)

Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow and prominent backer of former President Donald Trump's false voter fraud claims, said Tuesday the FBI served him with a ...

On his internet show, Lindell said, "He goes, 'Well, I got some bad news ... "I said, 'Come on, bring me to January 6,'" he said he told the agents, "I want to be part of that show." Lindell told CNN he initially believed the agents were serving him with a subpoena as part of a Lindell told CNN the agents presented him with the subpoena and asked for his phone. On his internet show, "The Lindell Report," he said, "Cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us and behind us and I said, 'These are either bad guys or the FBI.' Well, it turns out they were the FBI." Lindell shared on social media and conservative media copies of a subpoena he said was served by the FBI.

MyPillow's Mike Lindell Is Served Search Warrant (The New York Times)

The prominent promoter of 2020 election conspiracies says the F.B.I. seized his cellphone and asked him about his ties to a Colorado county clerk who is ...

Lindell said that the F.B.I. Lindell is the target of a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, which provides voting machines to Mesa County and other jurisdictions and which Mr. Lindell has claimed was responsible for changing the outcome of the 2020 election. Lindell earlier told The Times that he had funneled as much as $200,000 to her legal defense via his legal fund, the Lindell Legal Offense Fund, through which he had said third-party donors supported various lawsuits and projects. The F.B.I. Data that was purported to have come from the machines was later distributed at a conference hosted by Mr. “I was financing everything back then,” he said, referring to the various lawsuits that had been filed in relation to the 2020 election. asked that he not tell anyone about the investigation, but he displayed a copy of the letter and the search warrant on his online TV show Tuesday evening, reading portions of it aloud. Peters, he said, and about an image copied from a voting machine in Mesa County that had appeared on Frank Speech, a website and hosting platform that Mr. The agents presented him with a search and seizure warrant and interviewed him for about 15 minutes. The search is a sign that a federal investigation into Ms. Lindell, the chief executive and founder of MyPillow, is a major promoter of debunked theories that keep alive the false notion that the election was stolen from former President Donald J.

FBI seizes Mike Lindell's phone in probe of Colo. voting machine ... (The Washington Post)

FBI agents seized a cellphone belonging to Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder and prominent election denier, as part of a federal investigation into an ...

Lindell showed The Post a copy of the subpoena and said his understanding was that it did not require him to testify. The subpoena sought “documents/objects” for a federal grand jury hearing in Grand Junction, Colo., on Nov. “However, we request that you not disclose the existence of this subpoena for an indefinite period of time.” He told her that an upcoming Dominion software update could erase data needed to show that the election was stolen and relayed to others her request for technical help copying that data. On his show, Lindell also displayed a grand jury subpoena dated Sept. Frank met with Peters at her office in April 2021 and “showed her how her election was hacked,” The Post has previously reported. He said he would welcome the chance to speak with the House select committee investigating the Jan. Hayes, who has not been charged, was among the five people named on the federal search warrant served on Lindell. The FBI acknowledged that a warrant was served but declined to elaborate. “They wanted to know about the image. Peters and two other Mesa officials were previously indicted by a state grand jury on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges, including conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation. Lindell told The Post he has not received any subpoena from a grand jury investigating Jan.