Eviction suit against Mike Lindell's MyPillow dismissed after deal to pay overdue rent at Shakopee facility
SHAKOPEE, Minn. — An eviction lawsuit against Mike Lindell's MyPillow has been dismissed after the company earlier agreed to pay overdue rent at a Shakopee facility.
Delaware-based Exeter Finance filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging MyPillow is nearly $450,000 behind in rent payments for the facility, which houses an outlet store and a warehouse. The company has been leasing the space from Exeter since 2017.
Both sides reached a payment agreement during a virtual hearing Tuesday that states MyPillow won't be evicted if Lindell pays the remaining "rent and rears plus costs, interest and attorney's fees" by day's end. On Thursday, the plaintiffs in the case dropped it.
Lindell was represented in this case by former Republican Minnesota House Rep. Doug Wardlow, who told Judge Lauren Johnson he wired more than $250,000 to Exeter early Tuesday, and he asked a bank to increase the daily allowance for wire transfers so he could pay the rest.
Lindell told WCCO earlier this month that his company had "resolved" the rent dispute, but at the time, there were no corresponding court filings to confirm the claim. WCCO also reached out then to Exeter attorney Mark Schneebeck about the matter, but he didn't respond.
Back in March, a judge evicted MyPillow from another building in Shakopee after the company failed to make more than $217,000 in back rent payments.
Lindell, a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, told WCCO last year he was out of money after MyPillow was "canceled" by big box retailers and Fox News stopped airing MyPillow commercials amid the billion-dollar defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems over his false 2020 election claims. He was also ordered to pay millions to a software engineer for similar false claims.
Lindell auctioned off industrial equipment last year and began subleasing some of his company's manufacturing space in Minnesota.
NOTE: The video attached to this article was posted before Tuesday's hearing.
