In court filings today, the attorneys representing Mike Lindell informed the court that Lindell hasn’t paid his attorney fees for months, leading to millions of dollars in unpaid bills. Therefore they can no longer represent him.
This isn’t something Lindell denies. He admits that he’s completely broke and can no longer pay them.
Here’s more via NBC News:
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.”
The firm said that if it was forced to continue providing legal services to Lindell, the “future fees and costs will amount to millions of dollars in addition to the millions of dollars already owed.”
The firm has been defending Lindell in defamation lawsuits filed by voting machine companies Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems, as well as a third lawsuit brought by former Dominion employee Eric Coomer. All three claim their reputations were damaged by Lindell’s repeated fantastical claims of fraud around the 2020 presidential election.
“We’ve lost everything, every dime. All of it is gone.”
Lindell on Thursday praised his lawyers as “brave and courageous” and said he would gladly keep paying them, if he wasn’t broke.
“We’ve lost everything, every dime,” he told NBC News in a phone interview. “All of it is gone.”
Lindell said his company has faced financial challenges amid the lawsuits and sustained bad publicity, to the point that he can no longer take out any loans.
“They took away my borrowing because of all you guys in the media,” Lindell said, adding that he’d been “canceled” over his comments on the 2020 election.
Asked if he planned to represent himself or hire new lawyers, Lindell said it was too soon to tell.
“This just happened today,” he said.
In its filing, the law firm said Lindell and his company “have been made fully aware of this filing” and “have been advised to obtain other counsel.”
They go on to write that Lindell admitted earlier this year that he’d been forced to borrow $10 million to pay his legal fees. I would imagine he’s gonna be paying that off for a long time since his business has nearly gone up in flames from what it used to be.
It was great when he was helping out with COVID, but soon after he went all in on the 2020 election fraud and look where it’s gotten him. I don’t know if he’d admit it publically, but I’m sure he’s got a lot of regrets about now.