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Silent3

(15,257 posts)
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 10:13 PM Oct 2022

Already TEN years have passed. How much longer can Alex Jones avoid paying up...

...by dragging the appeals process on and on?

Can the courts force Jones to pay some portion of what he owes, even if not the whole amount, sometime soon?

Can the courts force Jones to put some of the money into escrow until appeals run out?

It's sickening that this has dragged on for a decade, and really isn't over yet.

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onecaliberal

(32,882 posts)
2. He can't get away from these judgements. If he tries to hide money that is also a crime,
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 10:36 PM
Oct 2022

Forensic accounting will be taking place. He’s fucked.

Silent3

(15,257 posts)
4. I'm sure he can't get away from these judgments forever, but do you have any idea...
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 10:54 PM
Oct 2022

...of how much time he can play for?

I've grown incredibly cynical these past few years at the snail's pace of our legal system.

I don't want justice to be rushed, or for due process to be denied. But I am sick to death of a system that rewards clients who can afford expensive lawyers to game the system, and that treats rich clients with kid gloves while others, especially the poor and minorities, get harsh, swift treatment with far too little presumption of innocence.

onecaliberal

(32,882 posts)
5. Well I can't blame you considering the guy who ripped off Americas top secrets to sell off to
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 11:09 PM
Oct 2022

His friends bone saw, putrid, and ping pong, is still walking free. In fact he confesses on the daily about the fact that he still has more documents.

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