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Related: About this forumThat time Mike Lindell declared a 'fake bankruptcy' to avoid a lawsuit
The $1.3 billion lawsuit filed by the voting machine company Dominion against Minnesota pillow mogul Mike Lindell Monday is not the first time hes faced a potentially ruinous lawsuit.
By late 2003, after more than a decade owning his beloved Victoria bar called Schmittys Tavern, Lindell had $147,000 in debts, according to court records, and couldnt keep up with the bar mortgage payments. Lindell sold the bar that year for $500,000, with part of the purchase financed through two promissory notes requiring the buyer to make monthly payments.
But then Lindell learned his corporation was being named as a co-defendant in a dram shop lawsuit thats when a bar owner is sued if a customer is over-served and then causes injury, in this case a snowmobile crash.
Lindell writes in his book What are the Odds? that he decided to avoid the potential damages by declaring bankruptcy a fake bankruptcy, he calls it in the book. By doing so, he could protect his assets from the people suing him and embark on his next plan: Becoming a professional gambler.
Read more: https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/02/23/that-time-mike-lindell-declared-a-fake-bankruptcy-to-avoid-a-lawsuit/
MyOwnPeace
(17,275 posts)they're both scam artists - and probably equally hated.....
OldBaldy1701E
(6,341 posts)That guy is definitely a chip off the old gold brick.
MyOwnPeace
(17,275 posts)Guaranteed it is Pyrite - Fools Gold!