'Do these people actually think they're getting any money?' Jones denounces the verdict

[brooklynite]

New York Times

As Alex Jones was being ordered by a jury in Connecticut to pay nearly $1 billion in damages to the families of eight Sandy Hook victims and an F.B.I. agent he accused of being actors, he scoffed live on his show: “Do these people actually think they’re getting any money?”

Broadcasting in tandem on Wednesday with the court hearing, which he did not attend, Mr. Jones called the $965 million judgment against him a “joke.” He then tried to convince his audience to send him money.

Mr. Jones, a fabulist who was ruled liable for defamation over his lies about the 2012 massacre being a hoax, told viewers that the Democratic establishment was out to get him and that “your pennies counter their millions.” The top headline on his website, which was covered in ads for the diet supplements he hawks, was about the verdict, and linked to an appeal to buy his book.

He planned to hold an “emergency” broadcast for more than 16 hours to “save Infowars,” he said, urging people to “flood us with donations.”

[Botany]

1. "Do these people actually think they're getting any money?"

Watch a judge attach his bank accounts and put liens on his properties PDQ.

Don't fuck around with him.

[brooklynite]

3. The challenge may be...

...he apparently transferred a lot of his personal assets to other people and corporate entities. The question will be what clawbacks will be possible.

[Botany]

6. I'm sure that the court is well aware of these moves and might jail him and go after other ....

.... parties too.

[Gore1FL]

2. I doubt they will get the full amount.

The fact that Alex Jones won't see any money again is more to the point.

[Srkdqltr]

4. So his followers, who will flood him with donations, will be part of the settlement?

The money they send him will go to the families? Eventually.

[marble falls]

5. "Whether they do or not, do you think you will have any appreciable wealth left" ...

He did it to himself. That's ironic. That he did it to all those others was deliberate cruelty.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. I'll bet he's planning on the Tumpian playbook and filing appeal after appeal

and getting delays in having to pay out any money.

That these fascists are allowed to use the legal system to tie everything up in knots is maddening. I would guess he's hoping to land on a trump-appointed judge at some point to vacate the judgements.

[treestar]

8. That could be, but the true penalty is against him

Having such a huge judgment against you is financial death. No loans available. No assets safe from some attempt to levy on them.

Bankruptcy laws have been made to mitigate using that to get away from it - transfers to other people, for instance, is one of the many tricks that the BK law no longer recognizes.