not only mr. lindell s data not proof of a chinese hacking plot it turns out it wasn t 2020 election data. it was random pacts of code and ip addresses and strings of random number. so now mr. lindell has to pay $5 hillian. he has to put his money where his mouth is as he put it. turn out cyber forensic expert won the contest, and now a panel for the american arbitration association has ordered mr. lindell to pay up. he has 30 days to cough up the $5 million now, mike lindell told nbc news this ruling was a, quote, horrible wrong decision and that it is all going to end up in court. even if mr. lindell ends up on the hook here, it s unclear how much of a dent this is going to put in the pocketbook of someone who literally plasters my pillow ads on fox air waves all day every day, but it is notable
election, pillow company ceo and conspiracy theory as mik lindell, claimed the ad hard verifiable prove that not only was the election stolen, but that it was somehow china that stole it he claimed he had the computer data to back all that up mike lindell, was so confident in his claim he dared anyone t look at the data prove i m wrong. he offered an incredibly specific and gigantic prize to anybody who could. 5 million dollar prize fo anybody that can prove the election data that i have fo the 2020 election is false $5 million will be all of thes guys, the cyber guys, i don care if it s media, they can dig into all this data if they can prove that it s no valid data from the 2020 election, i m putting my money where my mouth was and $5 million, why don t yo prove it there so you can wi $5 million not only was mr. lindell data not proof of some chinese hacking plot, it turns out i wasn t even 2020 election data it was just random packets o code, ip addresses, and string of random
subpoenas and search warrants on discord who owns the servers to a preserve anything they have so it can t be deleted and be turnover, subscriber information and any content. that leads them to some ip addresses and another connections, but basically by monday there at the home of an 18 year old boy in california. he s a member of this server and they re talking to him. his mom , then his lawyer, and finally they agree he s going to sit down and cooperate with the fbi . and what he tells them was i was part of this group. we were gamers. we did war games online . the guy who ran it was this guy o g or original gangster, meaning the senior member of the crew. and i did have a video chat with him and his. his name was jack and he worked on a military base in during the video chat, which goes back to january, he said, you know, i
a preserve anything they have so it can t be deleted and be turnover, subscriber information and any content. that leads them to some ip addresses and another connections, but basically by monday there at the home of an 18 year old boy in california. he s a member of this server and they re talking to him. his mom , then his lawyer, and finally they agree he s going to sit down and cooperate with the fbi . and what he tells them was i was part of this group. we were gamers. we did war games online . the guy who ran it was this guy o g or original gangster, meaning the senior member of the crew. and i did have a video chat with him and his. his name was jack and he worked on a military base in during the video chat, which goes back to january, he said, you know, i was copying these classified documents so i could put them in the chat room, so you guys could
pretty. i mean, do you see any possible way out a defense here for the suspect? there really? isn t abby. look people lied. people s memories are spotty. but the internet does not and, um i p addresses and login times and messages that people send often can lead a defendant to being convicted, and that s certainly going to and that s certainly going to happen here. but i think what seem to point in that direction now, which it s not a defense, but certainly at sentencing. he can make an argument that look, i wasn t attempting to harm the united states. what i thought i was doing was something righteous. and i don t have a criminal history before and maybe a sympathetic judge might give him a slightly lower sentence under the federal sentencing guidelines, but that s not a defense to the crime and individual who faces a tremendous amount of evidence that s electronic evidence sends a pretty decent chance of getting convicted or avoiding a conviction all altogether and simply pleading gu