“Bankruptcy court trustee planning to shut down conspiracy theorist #AlexJones’ Infowars media platform & liquidate its assets to help pay $1.5 bil in lawsuit judgments Jones owes for repeatedly calling Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
“Texas bankruptcy judge rejected a proposed liquidation of conspiracy theorist #AlexJones’ company Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Infowars, saying it was, in his opinion, in the best interest of the creditors..The judge said the process had dragged on and that it needed to stop “incurring costs” and let the families try to claim what they are owed through state courts.
It’s a day of reckoning today for #Infowars#ConspiracyTheorist#AlexJones, & a long-awaited culmination for the #SandyHook families who sued Jones for #defamation. A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has decided that Jones must sell off his personal assets through a Chpt 7 liquidation in order to pay families nearly $1.5B in #damages for spreading #lies that the 2012 #SchoolShooting never happened.
"Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre."
Of all the vile creatures that have slithered and slimed out from under rocks in the American public sphere in recent decades, Jones is among the vilest.
"Infowars host and known conspiracy theorist #AlexJones has just moved to liquidate his personal assets to pay the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre, to whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages, a move that would end his ownership of #Infowars."
@GottaLaff is right. Lotta misinformation flying around.
And look who is spreading it! Alex Jones! He's on the top of Live Spaces on X right now. #AlexJones with 123K followers vs. CBS News 52.K followers.
As the solar eclipse approaches, Alex Jones says that "the biblical implications [of the eclipse] are massive." Yes, that Alex Jones, "the alt-right conspiracy theorist who was ordered to pay $1.487 billion in damages in a defamation lawsuit over spreading conspiracies related to the Sandy Hook school shooting."
"What if we don’t need conspiracy theories to understand the eclipse? What if the Scriptures and the stars aren’t actually about the United States and the Confederacy? What if we don’t have to operate alone?
Why can’t we just put on our eclipse glasses and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime event with our family and friends?"
BloombergLaw: The families of #SandyHook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up #AlexJones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.
Jones’ general unsecured creditors—comprised mostly of Sandy Hook families holding about $1.5 billion in defamation judgments against the famed conspiracy theorist—voted 100% in favor of a #Chapter11 plan that would methodically liquidate and redistribute his property and cash, /1
Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims have voted to liquidate right wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ assets from his talk show. Jones owes the families nearly $1.5 billion after losing a 2022 defamation lawsuit for repeatedly saying the shooting was fake. Read more from Bloomberg.
#AlexJones associate Owen #Shroyer's appeal of his 60-day sentence — which he has described as a fight for free speech — has been dismissed. The three judge panel,
👉🏼which included two #Trump appointees,👈🏼 noted he knowingly waived his right to appeal when he pleaded guilty. #legal