Lindell also posted on social media a subpoena from a federal prosecutor in Colorado and what appears to be a search warrant related to a federal investigation into voting machine tampering in Mesa County, Colorado. The warrant seeks “all records and information on the LINDELL CELLPHONE that constitute fruits, evidence or instruments of violations” related to identity theft, intentional damage to a protected computer and conspiracy to commit the two previous crimes. The warrant cites violations “involving Tina Peters, Conan James Hayes, Belinda Knisley, Sandra Brown, Sherronna Bishop, Michael Lindell, and/or Douglas Frank, among other co-conspirators known and unknown to the government.” The Denver FBI field office told The Daily Beast that it does not comment on individual cases, but “without commenting on this specific matter, I can confirm that the FBI was at that location executing a search warrant authorized by a federal judge.” The U.S. attorney’s office in Colorado, which issued the subpoena, declined to comment. The case appears to stem from a 2021 election machine hack in Mesa County, according to allegations by County Clerk Tina Peters and her associates. Peters faces felony state charges for the alleged violation, along with her former colleagues in the clerk’s office Belinda Knisley and Sandra Brown. Hayes, a professional surfer turned conspiracy theorist, is accused of impersonating a local tech worker to help hack the machines under Peters’ direction. In November, the home of Sheronna Bishop, an acquaintance of Lindell and Peters and former campaign manager for Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), was believed to be the subject of a Mesa County trespassing search warrant. Now the investigation appears to include Liddell. The search warrant seeks data from Lindell’s phone, including any information it contains about damage to Dominion voting machines, information about Hayes’ alleged impersonation as a tech worker and the phone’s Internet activity, geographic location and information about if it could be controlled remotely. through “viruses, Trojan horses and other forms of malware”. “They took my phone,” Lindell told The Daily Beast Tuesday night by phone. “The FBI did!” Liddell claimed the FBI was looking for information on fellow voter fraud conspiracy theorist Dennis Montgomery. “They’re looking for the terabytes from Dennis Montgomery,” Lindell told The Daily Beast. “I hope they lift the gag order.” Lindell also explained his legal situation in a video Tuesday night. “The FBI tracked me down and took my phone,” he said on Facebook. “They surrounded me in a Hardee’s and took my phone that I do all my business with, everything. What they’ve done is weaponize – the FBI, it’s disgusting. I do not have a computer. Oh, what am I doing? [is] from this phone. Everything was there. And they told me not to tell anyone. Here’s an order: “Don’t tell anyone!” “Okay, I won’t!” Well, I am.” “Absolutely unnecessary,” added pillow mogul and Lindell TV host Brannon Howse when reached by The Daily Beast. Liddell also showed a copy of a subpoena, dated Sept. 7 and signed by an assistant U.S. attorney in Colorado. “A formal criminal investigation into a suspected felony is being conducted by an agency of the United States and a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Colorado,” said a document Lindell said was a subpoena on his nightly show. “As the recipient of a subpoena, you are under no obligation to secrecy. However, we ask that you do not disclose the existence of this subpoena for an indefinite period of time.” Lindell has previously been linked to several ongoing investigations in the state, most involving Peters. Shortly after her own county’s voting machines were allegedly hacked and the data leaked to conspiracy theorists, Peters attended Lindell’s August 2021 “Cyber Symposium” on alleged voter fraud, after which she went into hiding in a series of Lindell’s “safe houses”. In April, after Peters was arrested, Lindell told The Daily Beast that investigators had not approached him about the breach. Peters faces charges at the state level, while Lindell’s subpoena comes from a federal grand jury. Lindell has repeatedly claimed to have given Peters significant gifts, including a flight to the Cyber Symposium on his private jet, as well as campaign contributions of up to $800,000, exceeding Colorado’s $65 limit on gifts to public officials. Peters’ campaign contributions are under investigation, the state’s Independent Ethics Commission confirmed earlier this year, though it would not comment on whether Lindell’s contributions were part of that investigation. Lindell is also tangentially linked to a similar election equipment hack in Elbert County, Colorado, where a second official allegedly made unauthorized copies of voting machines, with the help of two men who promoted voter fraud conspiracy theories on Lindell’s web show. One of the men describes his activist group, Cause of America, as funded by Lindell.
