The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the nation’s deadliest school shooting
October 20, 2023 in News by RBN Staff
Source: TheMessenger.com
Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the nation’s deadliest school shooting. U.S. District Judge Christopher Lopez of Houston issued the ruling Thursday.
Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year and more recent financial documents submitted by his attorneys put his personal net worth around $14 million. But Lopez ruled that those protections do not apply over findings of “willful and malicious” conduct.
“The families are pleased with the Court’s ruling that Jones’s malicious conduct will find no safe harbor in the bankruptcy court,” said Christopher Mattei, a Connecticut lawyer for the families. “As a result, Jones will continue to be accountable for his actions into the future regardless of his claimed bankruptcy.”
An attorney for Jones did not immediately return a message seeking comment Friday.
After 26 people were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, Jones made a false conspiracy theory a centerpiece of his programing on his flagship Infowars show. He told his audience last year he was “officially out of money” and has asked them to shop on his Infowars website to help keep him on the air.
But Jones’ personal spending topped $93,000 in July alone, including thousands of dollars on meals and entertainment, according to his monthly financial reports in the bankruptcy case. The spending stuck a nerve with Sandy Hook families as they have yet to collect any of the money that juries awarded them.
Sandy Hook families won nearly the $1.5 billion in judgments against Jones last year in lawsuits over repeated promotion of a false theory that the school shooting that ever happened.
Relatives of the victims testified at the trials about being harassed and threatened by Jones’ believers, who sent threats and even confronted the grieving families in person, accusing them of being “crisis actors” whose children never existed.
Those jury decisions are a declaration of War against their own citizens. When Americans are punished for exposing the crimes of government,that opens up another war against the people in those juries whose ignorance cannot be allowed to persist with overwhelming evidence of the lies governments project with the accessory to these major crimes telegraphed and repeated by any and every news organization who repeats it–Anderson Cooper should be the first target for the crime of being a part of the Sandy Hook hoax–members of those jury decisions should also be punished severely in such a way that they can never sit in judgment against an American patriot again. They do not deserve to be American citizens and must be removed from our American society.
This whole trial is such a joke. Punishing a person for having a different opinion from the official narrative. Mr Halbig already exposed Sandy Hook as a false flag. He documented the crisis actors who played the grieving parents and showed their other acting work. He also showed the same “dead” children showing up the next year at the Super Bowl.
Poorly written and biased against Alex. The only thing Alex did wrong was not sticking to his story. He has a right to freedom of speech and is not responsible for people who MAY have threatened the Sandy Hook families. Watch the You Tube of the coroner telling the Sandy hook families that they would not be able to view the bodies! I was listening to Alex back then. Read “Nobody died at Sandy Hook” by Jim Fetzer and you will see what a hoax it may have been. Something smells badly to me.
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