Mypillow CEO ordered to pay $5M to 2020 election data debunker Officials: Man who killed 3 Minn. responders fired from inside home
Mike Lindell must pay $5 million to a software engineer who debunked data that the Mypillow CEO claimed proved that China interfered with the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim made the decision Wednesday, according to court records.
“Plaintiff is awarded $5 million plus post-judgment interest beginning April 19, 2023,” court documents show.
Lindell plans to appeal the judge’s decision, The Associated Press reported. When asked if he could dole out the millions, he pointed out that the breachof-contract suit was against Lindell Management LLC, and not him personally, the outlet said.
“Of course we’re going to appeal it. This guy doesn’t have a dime coming,” Lindell said, according to the AP.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The man who killed two Minnesota police officers and a firefighter-paramedic opened fire on officers without warning while they were inside his house, after they had been negotiating with him for around 31⁄2 hours, investigators revealed Thursday.
Officers inside the home in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville returned fire and wounded the man before making it outside. The firefighter was shot while aiding the wounded officers, the
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a statement. In all, the man fired more than 100 rounds at police and first responders, the agency said.
Police were dispatched to the home for what investigators have described as a domestic incident around 1:50 a.m. Sunday.
The arriving officers spoke with Shannon Gooden, 38, who refused to leave the home but said he was unarmed and that he had children inside, the BCA said in its first detailed update on the case since Sunday.
Officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and Sgt. Adam Medlicott, 38, are believed to have been first shot inside the home, the BCA said. Medlicott and another officer, who was not injured, returned fire from inside the home, wounding Gooden in the leg, the statement said.