"At the insistence of friends, I got myself invited but told them that examining this kind of data would take weeks or months using specialized tools. But I was wrong. It took me three hours to prove that the data was completely bogus. I wrote up a report on my findings, submitted it to Lindell's symposium director, and waited."
"After a month with no response, I approached lawyers, and Brian Glasser and Cary Joshi at Bailey Glasser agreed to take my case. We went to arbitration, as Lindell's contest rules required. We prepared our case, held depositions, went to the hearing in front of three experienced arbitrators and, after a year and a half, in April 2023, we got a unanimous decision. I had proved Mike wrong; he owed me $5 million."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit overturned a $5 million arbitration award that had found MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell liable after a public challenge contest. The ruling is characterized as undermining the Federal Arbitration Act and shifting resources from credible voting-system investigations to conspiratorial claims promoted by wealthy individuals. Lindell held a 2021 "Cyber Symposium" promising $5 million to anyone who could disprove his hacking claims; an investigator demonstrated the released data was bogus within hours, pursued arbitration, and secured a unanimous award in April 2023 before the award was later contested in federal court.
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