Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones attempts to answer questions about his emails asked by Mark Bankston, lawyer for Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, during trial at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday stopped the parody news site the Onion from buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars website, ruling that a bankruptcy auction did not result in the best possible bids.Posted: Dec 11, 2024 5:02 AM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
But he said the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee who ran the auction made "a good-faith error" by quickly asking for final offers for Infowars instead of encouraging more back-and-forth bidding between the Onion and a company affiliated with Jones's supplement-selling businesses, which was the runner-up.
Jones's attorney Ben Broocks told Lopez at a hearing on Monday that the Onion only put up half as much cash as the $3.5 million offer from First American United Companies, but boosted its bid with "smoke and mirrors" calculations.The Connecticut-based Sandy Hook families, who are Jones's largest creditors, augmented the Onion's bid by agreeing to forgo some repayment from the Infowars sale so that other creditors could receive more money.
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