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Alex Jones, who spread lies about the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that killed 26 first-graders and staffers, has dropped efforts to declare bankruptcy and agreed to liquidate his assets in order to finally start paying the nearly $1.5 billion in damages he owes the victims' families.
The relatives of the Sandy Hook victims won their defamation suits against Jones in 2021. But they have yet to see a penny since Jones and his media company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022.
That might change now that Jones requested to convert his bankruptcy into a liquidation. The request comes after the victims' families had asked a bankruptcy judge in Texas to liquidate Jones' media empire and Infowars parent company, Free Speech Systems.
Liquidating will not be nearly enough to cover the amount owed to the families, but it will likely force Jones to forgo ownership of his alt-right outlet, Infowars, where he spewed false conspiracy theories for 25 years.
Jones lied on Infowars that the shooting in Newtown, Conn., which killed 20 first graders — 6- and 7-year-olds — and six teachers, never took place. In lawsuits filed against Jones, the victims' families said they were harassed and tormented by Jones' listeners as a result of his lies.
Over the weekend during a taping of Infowars, Jones got emotional — alternating between anger and despair — while discussing losing his show and company.
"I'm not trying to be dramatic here but it's been a hard fight," he said.
Can you believe this guy? He spreads lies about the parents who lost their children in horrible conditions and his demented followers then harrassed and tormented the parents and yet this idiot thinks he is the one who has suffered! And yet, the right still embraces him as one of their own.
The relatives of the Sandy Hook victims won their defamation suits against Jones in 2021. But they have yet to see a penny since Jones and his media company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022.
That might change now that Jones requested to convert his bankruptcy into a liquidation. The request comes after the victims' families had asked a bankruptcy judge in Texas to liquidate Jones' media empire and Infowars parent company, Free Speech Systems.
Liquidating will not be nearly enough to cover the amount owed to the families, but it will likely force Jones to forgo ownership of his alt-right outlet, Infowars, where he spewed false conspiracy theories for 25 years.
Jones lied on Infowars that the shooting in Newtown, Conn., which killed 20 first graders — 6- and 7-year-olds — and six teachers, never took place. In lawsuits filed against Jones, the victims' families said they were harassed and tormented by Jones' listeners as a result of his lies.
Over the weekend during a taping of Infowars, Jones got emotional — alternating between anger and despair — while discussing losing his show and company.
"I'm not trying to be dramatic here but it's been a hard fight," he said.
Can you believe this guy? He spreads lies about the parents who lost their children in horrible conditions and his demented followers then harrassed and tormented the parents and yet this idiot thinks he is the one who has suffered! And yet, the right still embraces him as one of their own.
