MINNEAPOLIS — Package transport company DHL is suing MyPillow, alleging the enterprise synonymous with its founder, chief pitchman and election denier Mike Lindell owes almost $800,000 for unpaid bills.
The lawsuit is the ultra-modern legal dispute to emerge in opposition to MyPillow and Lindell, a prominent supporter of Donald Trump who has helped expand the previous president's fake claims that the 2020 election become stolen from him.
In the lawsuit filed in Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis on Monday, the DHL eCommerce unit alleges that MyPillow is in violation of a settlement that requires the Minnesota-based totally company to pay for all parcel transport offerings inside 15 days of being billed. The lawsuit says they reached a agreement in May 2023 that required MyPillow to pay $775,000 in 24 monthly installments starting in April of this yr.
But the lawsuit alleges that MyPillow has made simplest partial payments on that settlement, totaling $sixty four,583.34, with the last one received on June 6. DHL says it notified MyPillow that it was in default on July 2. The lawsuit seeks $799,925.Fifty nine, plus interest and legal professional prices.
Lindell instructed The Associated Press on Thursday that he did not know what the lawsuit changed into approximately, however that his corporation determined to stop the use of DHL over a year ago in a dispute over shipments that he said became DHL's fault.
Lawsuits and billing disputes are nothing new for the "MyPillow Guy." He's being sued for defamation through vote casting system agencies. Lawyers who had been firstly defending him in the ones cases give up over unpaid bills.
In July, Delaware-based totally Exeter filed a fit in search of to evict MyPillow from a Shakopee facility, alleging the employer became at the back of nearlyu $450,000 in hire bills. The in shape was brushed off after MyPillow agreed to pay the overdue lease and different expenses. A decide evicted MyPillow from any other constructing in Shakopee in advance this yr after the organization defaulted on 4 months of lease in less than a year.
A credit crunch last year disrupted coins flow at MyPillow after it misplaced Fox News as one in all its most important advertising and marketing platforms and changed into dropped through numerous country wide outlets. A judge in February affirmed a $5 million arbitration award to a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell stated proved that China interfered within the 2020 election.