Last fall, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit largely upheld court ordered sanctions of approximately $150,000 against Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and other members of the "Kraken" legal team that advanced false and frivolous claims in their efforts to challenge the 2020 Presidential election results. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court denied Powell and Wood's petitions for certiorari without comment. This should end their efforts to oppose these sanctions (though other legal proceedings against Powell and Wood remain ongoing).
Yesterday, a federal judge in Minnesota affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who had offered a $5 million bounty to anyone who could debunk his alleged evidence of Chinese interference in the 2020 election. As I recounted last year:
Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert who had apparently voted for Trump twice, took Lindell up on his challenge. He analyzed the supposed evidence and demonstrated it was a steaming pile of digital detritus, and not evidence of any sort of election interference. Indeed, he showed (as Lindell's terms required) that the data had nothing to do with the 2020 presidential election. Lindell, expectedly, refused to pay, and the matter went to arbitration. There, despite Lindell having written the terms to make recovery difficult, the arbitrators sided with Zeidman.
