DHL, a package delivery firm, is suing MyPillow, claiming that the latter is associated with its creator, main salesperson, and misanthropist Mike Lindell and that Lindell owes the company around $800,000 in unpaid invoices.
The complaint is the most recent legal battle to surface against MyPillow and Lindell, a well-known Trump supporter who has contributed to the ex-president’s fabrications that the 2020 election was rigged against him.
The DHL eCommerce unit claims that MyPillow is in breach of a contract that mandates the Minnesota-based company pay for all parcel delivery services within 15 days of being billed in a lawsuit filed in Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis on Monday. According to the lawsuit, a settlement was reached in May 2023, requiring MyPillow to pay $775,000 in 24 equal payments beginning in April of this year.
However, according to the lawsuit, MyPillow has only paid a portion of the settlement—$64,583.34—with the last payment being received on June 6. DHL claims that on July 2, it informed MyPillow that it was in default. The amount sought in the complaint is $799,925.59, plus legal expenses and interest.
According to Lindell, the company chose to quit using DHL over a year ago due to a dispute over shipments that he claimed were DHL’s fault. He did not know the nature of the complaint, he told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Billing issues and lawsuits are nothing new for the “MyPillow Guy.” Two voting machine companies have filed a slander lawsuit against him. Attorneys who had been representing him in those lawsuits initially left due to unpaid expenses.
MyPillow is being evicted from a Shakopee facility due to unpaid rent, according to a lawsuit filed in July by Delaware-based Exeter. After MyPillow agreed to pay the past-due rent and other costs, the lawsuit was dropped. Earlier this year, a judge ordered MyPillow to vacate a different Shakopee facility after the business neglected to pay rent for four months in less than a year.
A credit crisis last year caused MyPillow’s financial flow to be interrupted as it lost Fox News as a major advertising platform and several national stores stopped carrying it. A $5 million arbitration award to a software developer who contested evidence that Lindell said demonstrated China’s meddling in the 2020 election was upheld by a judge in February.
