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https://www.npr.org/2024/06/14/nx-s1-4991095/alex-jones-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-judge-liquidate-chapter7JUNE 14, 2024 5:01 AM ET
By Tovia Smith
Its a day of reckoning today for Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and a long-awaited culmination for the Sandy Hook families who sued Jones for defamation. A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas is expected to force Jones to liquidate his personal assets, including ownership of his media company, Free Speech Systems, in order to pay families nearly $1.5 billion in damages for spreading lies that the 2012 school shooting never happened.
Jones' influential Infowars show and website could be shut down by the end of the day, and his personal belongings from his gun collection to his jewelry could soon be auctioned to the highest bidder in something of a fire sale. He could even lose access to his account on X, where he currently has 2.3 million followers. However, Texas law allows him to keep his home, which is worth more than $2 million.
The families declined to comment ahead of the court hearing, but one of their attorneys, Avi Moshenberg, said liquidation would be "a victory in the sense that [Jones] is going to pay a heavy price" for what he did, adding, "It will be a big step toward dismantling [Jones'] ability to inflict any more harm on the families."
On the other hand, the plaintiffs are likely to collect only a tiny fraction of what they're owed, and bankruptcy is unlikely to silence Jones fully, as some families had hoped. "You cant force him to shut up through a Chapter 7 liquidation," Moshenberg said. Jones had proposed a settlement with families that would have barred him from talking about the Sandy Hook shooting, but for various other reasons, that offer failed.
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ProfessorGAC
(69,459 posts)...on a $2 million home with revenue sources dried up & assets liquidated, Alex.
samnsara
(18,241 posts)Iris
(15,989 posts)doc03
(36,508 posts)SOB accountable, sad.
2naSalit
(91,935 posts)dutch777
(3,386 posts)Not much of a believer but if anyone deserves to roast in hell for eternity....next to Trump....it's Alex Jones.
Iris
(15,989 posts)Jacson6
(665 posts)But they can levy bank accounts and place liens on titled property.
Upthevibe
(9,000 posts)May he receive the Karma that he's accrued now!
He's exhibited behavior that's unconscionable..
Send him out of the court with nothing but a used jockstrap and flipflops.
Wounded Bear
(60,446 posts)Midnight Writer
(22,885 posts)Who was it that said "Justice delayed is justice denied"?
Hell, this guy Jones is on tape and video committing this evil, malicious slander over and over, and it still takes 12 years and counting to even get to the prospect of him paying a dime?
HAB911
(9,327 posts)I hope it actually happens
moonshinegnomie
(2,888 posts)not one of the asswipes in the 5th circuit who are maga rats