Alex Jones: Unbalanced and Demented

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    #191     Oct 18, 2022
  2. gwb-trading

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    Good! Hopefully this movement of holding people accountable with large financial damages for obvious outrageous lies which cause harm to others starts to become a legal trend.

    Alex Jones ordered to pay an additional $473 million in punitive damages after nearly $1 billion verdict in Sandy Hook case
    https://www.insider.com/alex-jones-must-pay-473-million-punitive-damages-sandy-hook-2022-11
    • Judge Barbara Bellis ordered Alex Jones to pay $473 million in punitive damages on Thursday.
    • This is in addition to the nearly $1 billion verdict the jury ordered Jones to pay in the case.
    • Jones was found liable by default for spreading a lie that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax.
    A Connecticut judge on Thursday ordered Alex Jones to pay $473 million in punitive damages to the families of victims who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, according to multiple reports.

    This is in addition to the nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages the jury in the case ordered Jones to pay the plaintiffs last month, for spreading a lie that the shooting was staged by the government as a pretense to restrict gun rights. Separately, Jones was ordered to pay the parents of Sandy Hook victim Jesse Lewis nearly $50 million in a case that wrapped in Texas in August.

    Throughout the nearly one-month trial in Waterbury, Connecticut, the more than a dozen plaintiffs in the case took the stand and testified about how hoax believers harassed them for years online and even stalked their homes.

    Jones lost the case by default last year when he refused to turn over financial documents about his company, Infowars. In doing so, he also lost the ability to argue in court his belief that his comments about Sandy Hook were First Amendment-protected free speech.

    Jones' attorney, Norm Pattis, did not immediately return Insider's request for comment on Thursday. Pattis did however appear on Infowars shortly after the punitive damages award was announced.

    "These cases are about making an example of you and shutting you up, piling you up with a judgment debt," Pattis told Jones on Infowars. "They'd like to put you on a financial leash in an attempt to silence you."

    But Pattis said he hopes that doesn't happen.

    "I hope for the sake of the American people you don't let that happen," Pattis told Jones.

    Jones rose from a local Austin shock jock to a nationally-recognized figure largely during the 2016 election, when he hosted then-presidential candidate Donald Trump on his show.

    From his earliest days in broadcasting, Jones has been spreading conspiracy theories, but his audience started getting much larger around the time he began pushing lies about Sandy Hook.

    In more recent years, Jones has grown his empire by advertising supplements, survivalist gear, and patriotic memorabilia to his fans.

    At the first Sandy Hook trial held in Texas this summer, a financial expert testified about how he estimates Jones and Free Speech Systems, Infowars' parent company, to be worth a combined $135 million to $270 million.

    Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy shortly before the first Sandy Hook trial kicked off. A third Sandy Hook trial, also back in Texas, is supposed to commence in the coming months.
     
    #192     Nov 10, 2022
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    #193     Nov 19, 2022
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    #194     Nov 20, 2022
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    #195     Nov 29, 2022
  6. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    Alex Jones and Kanye West were meant to be together. Yet, one has been diagnosed with mental illness and the other has an undiagnosed mental illness.

    One helps to take care of his children's financial needs and the other does not. Both use religion in a twisted way.

    Yet, I'm surprised that Elon Musk has not given Kelly a verified Twitter account but the good thing is that he made the decision to not allow Alex Jone's back onto Twitter. I love Kelly's twitter profile...

    Mom. Whistleblower, activist, speaker, writer. Smashing through the dis Infowars, for justice. Layperson legal insight, not advice. Media Pls call : 833-KELLYJO

    wrbtrader
     
    #196     Nov 29, 2022
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    Alex Jones files for bankruptcy following Sandy Hook verdict - court filing
    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/al...g-sandy-hook-verdict-court-filing-2022-12-02/

    Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday, less than two months after a jury ordered him and the parent of his Infowars website to pay nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages to relatives of victims of 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.

    The filing said Jones has between $1 million and $10 million of assets and between $1 billion and $10 billion of liabilities. It also refers to Free Speech Systems, a Jones affiliate and Infowars' parent, as having filed for bankruptcy in July.
     
    #197     Dec 2, 2022
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  9. gwb-trading

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    Now Alex Jones is completely hosed. Judge strips Alex Jones of bankruptcy protections for $1.5 billion Sandy Hook debt.

    RUINED: Alex Jones’s Attempt To Avoid Paying Sandy Hook Families Backfires In Court
    https://dailyboulder.com/ruined-ale...aying-sandy-hook-families-backfires-in-court/

    Far-right conspiracy monger and Infowars host Alex Jones Jones last month filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in an attempt to evade a court order to prevent Sandy Hook families from collecting a $1.5 billion judgment against him.

    On Monday, however, Houston Judge Christopher M. López reportedly ended Jones’s bankruptcy protections, by lifting a stay that was automatically put in place when Jones filed for bankruptcy.

    The judge ruled to “immediately to (i) allow the Sandy Hook Post-Trial Families’ Cases to continue to proceed to entry of final judgment and (ii) once judgments are entered, to allow appeals, if any, to proceed and the Sandy Hook Post-Trial Families to pursue, respond to and participate in any such appeals without further order of the Court.”

    As reported by News 12’s John Craven, the families of Sandy Hook victims agreed to postpone collection of the massive debt for now.

     
    #199     Dec 20, 2022
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    #200     Dec 21, 2022
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