WASHINGTON, DC: My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell became the butt of many jokes after attorneys defending him and his business in a defamation lawsuit demanded to dump him as a client.
In a court filing on Thursday, October 5, 2023, Minnesota-based Parker Daniels Kibort pleaded with a judge for the District Court in Washington to allow them to ditch both their clients, claiming have not paid the firm for its work on the case and won’t be able to pay future costs.
Andrew Parker, one of the attorneys, said that MyPillow stopped paying his firm’s invoices on time this year and has paid only a fraction in recent months.
“Beginning in August 2023 and again in September 2023, PDK warned Defendants that if they did not pay the outstanding invoices and continue to pay new invoices as they came due, PDK would have to withdraw its representation of Defendants,” Parker wrote.
“Two relatively small payments were made in August 2020 and two relatively small payments were made in September 2023, but these were only a fraction of the total owed….At this time, Defendants are in arrears millions of dollars to PDK,” he continued, according to Politico.
The firm warned that if it was made to continue representing Lindell, "future fees and costs will amount to millions of dollars in addition to the millions of dollars already owed."
They have been defending Lindell in defamation cases made by the makers of voting machines Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems, as well as in a third action filed by a former Dominion employee Eric Coomer
All three plaintiffs contend that Lindell's persistent and ludicrous allegations of fraud over the 2020 presidential election damaged their reputations.
Why Mike Lindell hasn’t paid his attorneys?
On Thursday, Lindell admitted he hasn't paid the attorneys but added that he doesn't blame them for wanting to withdraw.
“These guys were courageous lawyers. They took on the case when nobody else would….Over the last two months, we haven’t been able to pay these lawyers at all,” Lindell told Politico.
“They came to me and said we can’t go on if we can’t get paid. I said, there’s no money,” he continued.
The bedding magnate further claimed that his business has been struggling financially since American Express reduced his line of credit from $1 million to $100,000.
He explained that at this moment, he had used every available dollar to pay his company's employees. “The lawfare has just run us out of money. That was probably what they wanted to accomplish in the first place. It’s disgusting,” he said.
While Parker’s submissions said Lindell is trying to line up new lawyers, he said he has no immediate prospects on that front. “People are going to be afraid to be lawyers. I don’t know where I go from here,” he said.
Internet reacts to attorneys dumping Mike Lindell
The news of attorneys dumping Lindell has garnered immense social media attention, with one user saying, “He’s gonna have a GoFund me pretty soon.”
“The new song goes, "And away goes My Pillow down the drain!" a second one said. “All Mike Lindell wants to do these days is bury his head under a pillow,” the third user slammed.
“Lindell got played and went along with it. He deserves what happens to him. I feel bad for those he employed. They too got played by Lindell,” another user asserted.
“When you became Mike Lindell's lawyer, you had to know you weren't getting paid, right?” one more wrote.
