MyPillow lawyers say CEO Mike Lindell owes them millions of dollars
MyPillow lawyers say CEO Mike Lindell owes them millions of dollars
Attorneys representing Lindell and MyPillow in defamation suits filed by voting machine companies say he's fallen behind on his bills and needs to be dropped as a client.
The attorneys defending Mike Lindell and his business against defamation claims from voting machine companies are seeking to sever ties with the "MyPillow Guy" over millions of dollars in unpaid legal fees.
In a court filing Thursday, the law firm of Parker Daniels Kibort LLC said Lindell and MyPillow are months behind on their legal bills in three defamation cases, and they can no longer afford to represent him.
"At this time, Defendants are in arrears by millions of dollars to PDK," the filing said. "PDK is a small litigation and trial firm in Minneapolis, MN and cannot afford to finance Defendants’ defense in the Litigations."
Is anyone surprised? I don't understand why these law firms don't require payment up front for "defendants" like this. I wouldn't represent them for all the money in the world but if I was going to I wouldn't do it on good faith that they'll pay me when the bill becomes due. The minute the owe me a cent, all work stops until payment is received.
133At the very least after the first few ten thousand dollars of unpaid bills I would stop working. But there may be other considerations.
41It’s pretty common for corporate stuff (legal or otherwise) to start with no payment changing hands, just a contract. Then an invoice lands either monthly or on completion afterwards.
That makes it easier for the work to actually start (otherwise you need to engage the finance dept up front and they’re often slow), and once the contract is signed and the work started that’s the sales process complete.
32It's common, but probably shouldn't be for these right wing grifters. Or just grifters in general. If you know someone is trying to start some idealogical bullshit in order to satisfy a personal grievance, you can just kind of assume that you're not getting paid.
9I get that for normal clients but letting it get to millions is a bit silly unless you have a guarantee of payment and I'm not one bit surprised this waste of oxygen isn't paying up/claiming he can't. I would insist on extra upfront on top but there's probably a reason I'm not a successful and rich lawyer
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Ive needed lawyers for family shit and it was always paid up front. Idk how these guys are getting a fresh dollar worth of work without compensation.
9Same way banks work, when you owe them 30,000 and can't pay, you're fucked. When you owe them 100 million they're fucked.
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Agreed, but it's hard to feel bad for people with no morals. ' I will absolutely represent this delusional shitbag, if the money is right' should not be a thing.
Hopefully it sinks all of them. It won't of course, the lawyers will be fine, their interns might be laid off, MyDildo has already been abandoned by his hero. Nothing changes.
7I understand the moral outrage, but remember that our laws guarantee everyone the right to effective legal counsel—even shitty, guilty people. For this reason, I think one has to give some pause before judging lawyers who defend obviously shitty/guilty clients. I saw an expose once on a hated defense lawyer who almost always took cases wherein the defendant was obviously guilty and had virtually no shot at trial due to overwhelming evidence. He maintained he took the clients in question specifically because he felt everyone deserved the right to a decent lawyer and this class of people are often shunned by attorneys who prioritize their win/lose ratio.
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Hopefully it will put scumbag lawyers like this out of business.
7I couldn't do it but I understand that to have a balanced law system there needs to be lawyers to defend even the guilty. Some are ethically challenged and stoop to disgusting tactics but not all who defend the obviously guilty play dirty. Frustrating when bad people evade justice on a technicality but sometimes that's the fault of the prosecution for making a mistake, which of course happen as matter of course though that doesn't make it any more palatable.
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For some of these firms it's free press, even if their client is a deadbeat or just plain old ridiculous.
4For some of these firms it's free press, even if their client is a deadbeat or just plain old ridiculous.
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How the fuck do you end up owing millions of dollars to lawyers after 2-3 years? And at some point he was paying them so I don't even want to know what the total has been
46I don't remember those exact amount but I'm pretty sure Dominion is suing him for a whole lot more than that
17He’s a grift cow. He’s been repeatedly hit up by grifters to fund stupid stuff.
10They're likely accruing debt on a bonded injunction or something similar though a couple million on a case this large and public over years isn't uncommon.
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You can't convince me this fucker isn't back on the crack.
37This election stuff is his current crack.
He took a hotshot of Trump.
14Yep. Some people just have an addictive personality and need to be addicted to something. Eminem talked about it when he first got clean. He was saying how he replaced his addiction for drugs with running. Said he would run for several miles every single day.
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Also, his pillows suck. I just felt the need to add that.
31That's what I hate about how everyone calls him "the MyPillow Guy" it's free advertising even if no one likes him.
10I was gifted one of his pet blankets for Christmas. Those suck too. My dog gets static electric zaps every morning.
9Permanently Deleted
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I really hope all of these high profile right wing types follow Trump's lead. All of them having crappy lawyers would be fitting.
27They're not used to criminal lawyers. They're used to criminal lawyers. They have no concept of how a legitimate justice system is supposed to work.
As soon as they can't intimidate or "whack" a judge, juror, or opponent they go deer in headlights. You can't blame them really. Their money has shielded them through decades without consequence.
10These people never had whack a judge power, at best they have here's a hundred thousand you didn't see anything money. That's a big difference and one arguably isn't power just influence that can be switched by offering them slightly more.
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I learned it from yoooouuu daddy Trump!!!!
18"That goddamn credit? Dead it. You think a crackhead paying you back? Shit, forget it!"
- Biggie Smalls (Ten Crack Commandments)17Womps and Preyers 🙏
15Lie down with ~~dogs ~~ pillow guy and you can expect to get fleas.
15My dog is infinitely cleaner than any of these assholes
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Crack ain't got shit on narcissism.
7Looks like Mike Pillow needs another cyber symposium to sell tickets!
5And yet, he still holds on to his claims. He needs some real deprograming.
4What is the total fees?
2All of these monsters are continuously reported to "owe millions" to their lawyers, and are being sued by them, and yet, they continue to be represented every time they go to court. One of these things simply isn't true.
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