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Mike Lindell appears at his booth on Day 3 of CPAC 2026, in Grapevine, Texas, on March 27, 2025 (Photo by Laura Brett/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images).
FedEx has turned to a federal judge, requesting that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell be compelled to settle over $2 million in damages related to an ongoing shipping debt dispute, alleging that they have yet to receive any payment.
According to a report by Law&Crime in March 2025, FedEx initiated a federal lawsuit against both MyPillow and Lindell in Tennessee, where the company is based. Initially, the lawsuit demanded nearly $9 million in unpaid debts, echoing complaints from other shipping companies that claimed they were also shortchanged.
The Tennessee case swiftly concluded with a default decision, as neither Lindell nor MyPillow responded to the lawsuit. Just five months after it was filed, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee ruled in favor of FedEx. The court found MyPillow responsible for $8,809,056.31, and Lindell personally accountable for $2,677,933.31 in compensatory damages, with additional costs and a postjudgment interest rate of 4.08% per year, according to court records.
The focus then shifted to the collection of these amounts, a scenario reminiscent of Smartmatic’s ongoing efforts to have Lindell pay sanctions for presenting “frivolous” claims in court. In pursuit of this, FedEx initially filed for summary judgment in New York state court in October to enforce the Tennessee default judgment in a state where Lindell frequently operates his business.
Lindell countered in December by transferring the lawsuit to federal court, but this has only intensified FedEx’s commitment to pursuing the matter.
As before, FedEx alleged Tuesday that Lindell made false promises that he would pay the debt so he would be allowed to continue “shipping on credit.”
“With respect to all of these representations made by Lindell, he made them at a time that he was informed FedEx was in the process of revoking My Pillow’s credit privileges, stopping shipments for My Pillow altogether, or turning over My Pillow’s accounts to debt collectors. Thus, Lindell made representations to prevent each of these things from happening, but Lindell knew his representations were false when they were made and he specifically intended FedEx to rely on the representations to keep shipments moving through the FedEx system on credit,” the filing said.
Noting that FedEx “has not received any amount owed to it” following the default judgment Lindell has not appealed, the plaintiff asked U.S. District Judge John Koeltl, a Bill Clinton appointee, to issue an order adopting the findings on liability and damages, and to “retain jurisdiction” — forcing Lindell to pay the $2.67 million-plus sum accordingly.
Just last month, another federal judge held Lindell in civil contempt for refusing to pay Smartmatic $56,369 in sanctions for more than a year. The voting machine company emphasized that Lindell had the money but chose not to pay, pointing out that he spent $187,037.87 of his Minnesota gubernatorial campaign funds to buy copies of his own book “What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO” from MyPillow Inc. — just to give them away.
Law&Crime reached out to a Lindell attorney for comment on the FedEx matter.
Read the full filing here.