MyPillow CEO and proverbial yeller at clouds Mike Lindell is underneath investigation by the Department of Justice for potential identification theft and intent to wreck a protected pc doubtlessly related to a 2020 Colorado voting tools safety breach.

Lindell’s authorized group published a copy of the search and seizure warrant issued towards him as a part of Lindell’s broader lawsuit towards the FBI and Justice Department to attempt to return his cellular phone. FBI brokers seized Lindell’s cellphone whereas he was sitting in a Hardee’s drive-through like final week. According to The New York Times, Lindell claims these brokers questioned him about his ties to a Colorado county clerk who’s going through an indictment for allegedly making an attempt to drag knowledge from Dominion Voting Systems.

For everybody nonetheless catching up, the FBI opened an investigation final 12 months right into a suspected safety breach of voting machines in Mesa County, Colorado. That investigation started after Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold reportedly alerted officers on the Department of Homeland Security of the suspected breach. Griswold has beforehand accused the Mesa County clerk, an outspoken Republican with obvious connections to Lindell, of taking part in a job within the breach.

The Lindell search warrant seeks, “all records and information” associated to wreck to the Dominion voting methods, together with data on any makes an attempt to impair the integrity of the machines’ knowledge. Additionally, the warrant seeks out any data “relating to the attachment of any peripheral” to a Dominion system, equivalent to a USB flash drive. A Magistrate decide in Minnesota federal court docket reportedly authorised the order in early September on possible trigger Lindell and different alleged co-conspirators have violated federal legal guidelines round identification fraud and conspiracy to defraud the U.S, according to Reuters.

Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit towards Lindell final 12 months after he repeatedly unfold false claims suggesting the machines have been rigged forward of the 2020 election. Naturally, Lindell counter sued Dominion with an excellent pricer $1.6 billion defamation go well with.