Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appears on the brink of losing the Infowars media platform as a bankruptcy judge is set to rule on whether to liquidate his assets.
FILE - Alex Jones speaks to the media outside the courthouse, in Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 21, 2022. Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appears on the brink of losing the Infowars media platform that he turned into a multimillion-dollar moneymaker over the past 25 years, as a bankruptcy judge is set to rule on whether to liquidate his assets to help pay the US$1.5 billion he owes for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
Jones and Austin, Texas-based Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022, when relatives of many victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, won lawsuit judgments of more than US$1.4 billion in Connecticut and US$49 million in Texas.“Doing so will enable the Connecticut families to enforce their US$1.
If Free Speech Systems’ case is dismissed, the company could return to the same position it was in after the US$1.5 billion was awarded in the lawsuits. Efforts to collect the damages would go back to the state courts in Texas and Connecticut. That could give Infowars an extended lifeline as collection efforts played out.
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