Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday, after he and the parent of his Infowars website were ordered to pay about $1.5 billion for spreading lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.
Jones filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Houston, a court filing showed.
"Like every other cowardly move Alex Jones has made, this bankruptcy will not work," said Chris Mattei, an attorney representing Sandy Hook families. "The American judicial system will hold Alex Jones accountable, and we will never stop working to enforce the jury’s verdict." "Defamation is pretty clearly an intentional tort - it is especially clear in Alex Jones's case,' Block-Lieb said.
An economist in the Texas case estimated that Jones is personally worth between $135 million and $270 million.
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