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hookaleft

(936 posts)
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 07:28 AM Sep 2021

Mike Lindell paid millions to "cyber experts"; allegedly bought luxury home for accused fraudster

MyPillow CEO may have bought $1.5 million home for supposed expert — who didn't even show up at "cyber symposium"

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's alleged net worth of $300 million may be dwindling rapidly, thanks in large part to the team of blundering operatives, advisers and self-appointed cyber experts who have convinced Lindell to pay them big bucks for their thoroughly unsuccessful work to help him reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

According to interviews with sources close to Lindell and documents reviewed by Salon, the bedding magnate has paid more than $3 million to various advisers and his team of "white hat hackers." They produced the supposed "packet-capture" evidence, which Lindell has promised for months would prove the election had been hacked, and were also paid to ensure its "safety" between the November election and Lindell's much-hyped "cyber symposium" last month in South Dakota.

On Thursday, Josh Merritt, a former member of Lindell's "red team" at the South Dakota event, told Salon that the $3 million was split among a group of Lindell's "cyber experts." Most of the money, he said, went toward the purchase of a luxury Florida home for Dennis Montgomery, a discredited former government contractor with a checkered history who has become central to Lindell's operation.

Merritt said that in the "red team room" he heard Lindell and an employee discuss "that being the house that Dennis Montgomery lived in. Lindell had stated many times he had paid Montgomery and others over $3 million, and he had spent a total of over $15 million" on his claims of election fraud.


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https://www.salon.com/2021/09/03/mike-lindell-paid-millions-to-cyber-experts-allegedly-bought-luxury-home-for-accused-fraudster/

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Mike Lindell paid millions to "cyber experts"; allegedly bought luxury home for accused fraudster (Original Post) hookaleft Sep 2021 OP
! Marcuse Sep 2021 #1
So true trash MTG and MG Sep 2021 #5
This guy is such a sucker. No wonder Trump took to him. Vinca Sep 2021 #2
I don't believe he ever had 300 million dollars viva la Sep 2021 #3
UNBELIEVEABLE trash MTG and MG Sep 2021 #4
The real damage is to his reputation and to his business. Midnight Writer Sep 2021 #6
This is so Republican Champp Sep 2021 #7
Another very stable genius dalton99a Sep 2021 #8
I'm obviously no fan of the My Pillow Guy, but ... dawg Sep 2021 #9
Eyeroll and stink-eye toward Salon for calling him a "bedding magnate" Stinky The Clown Sep 2021 #10

viva la

(3,273 posts)
3. I don't believe he ever had 300 million dollars
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 08:38 AM
Sep 2021

Selling pillows?

He just emulates his idol Trump... claiming to be more rich.

Whatever he had 3 years ago, he's wasted most of this.

Midnight Writer

(21,719 posts)
6. The real damage is to his reputation and to his business.
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 09:28 AM
Sep 2021

Who would want to deal with this nutbag?

Who would give him a loan, or enter into an agreement with him?

Who would want to buy products from this guy who screams lunatic theories every day?

Pillows is a competitive business. This guy made out by the branding and advertising of his product.

Now that brand is tarnished beyond repair.

Champp

(2,114 posts)
7. This is so Republican
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 10:04 AM
Sep 2021

The very Q-uintessence of grift. If you ain't doing it, then you are the one being grifted.

dawg

(10,621 posts)
9. I'm obviously no fan of the My Pillow Guy, but ...
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 10:17 AM
Sep 2021

I see him as somewhat of a tragic figure.

I could be wrong, but I think he really believes all this bullshit and is probably going to lose everything because of it.

Oh well, maybe wingnut welfare will keep him afloat.

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