Founder Alex Jones is facing multiple defamation lawsuits and unable to pay the bills has filed for bankruptcy. Going after dead children by calling the shooting a hoax...didn't end too well for him when the Parents of the dead children...went after him. In my opinion, him and his followers that continue spreading misinformation online far beyond the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are mentally disturbed. ---------- AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Infowars has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the website's founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones faces defamation lawsuits over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. The bankruptcy filing Sunday in Texas puts civil litigation on hold while the business reorganizes its finances. The filing came a week before a jury in Texas was set to begin considering how much money Jones, who has already lost the defamation lawsuits, should pay the families of Sandy Hook victims. In its court filing, Infowars said it had estimated assets of US$50,000 or less and estimated liabilities of $1 million to $10 million. Creditors listed in the bankruptcy filing include relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 school massacre in Connecticut. The plaintiffs in that case have said they were subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones' followers because he promoted the hoax conspiracy that crisis actors faked the shooting in an effort by the government to take away guns and restrict firearms. Jones has since conceded that the shooting did happen. "Alex Jones is just delaying the inevitable: a public trial in which he will be held accountable for his profit-driven campaign of lies against the Sandy Hook families who have brought this lawsuit," said Christopher Mattei, who represents the families in a Connecticut lawsuit against Jones. An attorney for Jones has not returned a message seeking comment. Jones told his Infowars listeners Monday that he was "totally maxed out" and urged them to contribute money and buy nutritional supplements on his website to keep him on the air. "It's time for people to be able to see that I don't have $5 million. I don't have $3 million. We have less than $3 million cash and we need that money to buy future product to be able to operate," Jones said. Last month, Jones was fined US$75,000 for failing to appear for a deposition in a defamation case but a judge last week ordered the return of the money because Jones eventually showed up. Another new lawsuit accuses Jones of hiding millions of dollars in assets, but an attorney for Jones has called that allegation "ridiculous." Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, died in the Newtown school shooting, said he did not immediately know how the bankruptcy would affect his defamation lawsuit against Jones in Texas, where a trial on how much money Jones should pay in damages is set to begin next week. "It is what it is," Heslin said. "We'll see where it all goes. He's tried everything to avoid everything." It is not the first time a bankruptcy filing has affected a lawsuit filed by the Sandy Hook families. While suing gun maker Remington, which manufactured the AR-15-style rifle used in the school shooting, the company filed for bankruptcy twice. In the second case filed in 2020, Remington's assets were eventually sold off to other companies. The 2020 bankruptcy delayed proceedings for a year in the Connecticut lawsuit, which sought damages against Remington for how it marketed its rifles. In February, the families of nine victims of the school shooting announced they had agreed to settle the case for US$73 million. https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/alex-jones-s-infowars-files-for-bankruptcy-in-u-s-court-1.5865232 wrbtrader
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit care. Seriously, you need to stay out of the Politics section if this nonsensical silliness gets you so riled up that you feel the need to lash out at folks who participate in the silliness of Alex Jones.
Alex Jones must pay for Sandy Hook falsehoods, parents’ lawyer says as defamation trial begins Sandy Hook Parents to Testify Against Alex Jones, and a Culture of Lies Mr. Jones implied on his show in 2017 that Mr. Heslin's televised recollection of cradling Jesse's body shortly after the shooting was false. The family has since endured years of accusations and threats but only after Mr. Jones posted their telephone numbers, work addresses, and home addresses to his followers. U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones led a "vile campaign of defamation" when he falsely claimed the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, a Texas jury was told on Tuesday, but a lawyer for Jones said his client already had paid a price. Attorney Mark Bankston, representing the parents of slain 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, made the accusation at the start of a jury trial to decide how much Jones must pay for spreading falsehoods about the killing of 20 children and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. Jones, founder of the Infowars radio show and webcast, had asserted the mainstream media and gun-control activists conspired to fabricate the tragedy. He had said the shooting was staged using crisis actors but later acknowledged it took place. “Mr. Jones was continually churning out this idea that Sandy Hook was fake,” Bankston told jurors. He said Jones and Infowars were responsible for the “most despicable and vile campaign of defamation and slander in American history.” Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, Jesse's parents, are seeking $150 million in compensatory and punitive damages for what they say was a campaign of harassment and death threats by Jones’ followers. Federico Reynal, an attorney for Jones, acknowledged that Infowars had spread false information but said his client had a right to question mainstream narratives on his show. He said Jones had lost millions of viewers since being deplatformed on social media in 2018. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/al...l-begins-over-sandy-hook-shooting-2022-07-26/ ---------- They easily won this defamation and slander case against this dickwad Jones but I'm not sure they will get $150 million in compensatory and punitive damages. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/alex-jones-jury-trial-sandy-hook-1387577/ wrbtrader
Sandy Hook victim's parents sue InfoWars host Alex Jones for $216 million I'm not sure about the difference between the $150 million and the $216 million...regardless, it's still a lot of money for someone that has already told a court that he's bankrupted. ---------- Parents of a six-year-old who was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are seeking $US150 million ($216 million) in damages from conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones for claiming they were complicit in a plan to fake the shootings as pretext for gun control laws. The civil trial against Mr Jones began in his hometown of Austin, Texas, this week, where a jury will decide how much he owes the parents for falsely telling his audience that the deadliest classroom massacre in US history was a hoax. Key points: The trial will determine how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones owes the parents for claiming the massacre was a hoax Before the trial, the parents' lawyer said the conspiracy had become an obsession for Mr Jones's followers Mr Jones's lawyer argues his client was punished already by being kicked off Facebook, Twitter, Spotify and YouTube https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07...-sue-infowars-radio-host-alex-jones/101274550 wrbtrader
Alex Jones trial: InfoWars producer, lawyer spar over Sandy Hook portrayals InfoWars leader Alex Jones ignored plentiful evidence that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred, choosing instead to rely on a Sandy Hook denier despite warnings that the man exaggerated his credentials and harassed parents whose children had died in the attack, jurors heard Wednesday. Day two of a trial pitting two Sandy Hook parents against Jones, a right-wing provocateur and conspiracy theorist, opened in an Austin courtroom Tuesday with a focus on Wolfgang Halbig, a Florida man whose campaign to portray the shooting as a hoax was given a substantial boost by Jones' InfoWars media system. With InfoWars producer Daria Karpova on the stand, the parents' lawyer, Mark Bankston, questioned why Jones and others did not do a better job examining Halbig's claims, particularly after receiving emails questioning his qualifications and showing that Halbig had sent harassing emails to at least two parents of Sandy Hook victims. "We get so many emails," Karpova said, adding that she and others at InfoWars did their best to verify claims made by guests on the show, which is broadcast online and on radio. "A beauty of the Alex Jones Show is it's not a scripted show," Karpova said, with Jones presenting information he believed was true at the time. Bankston showed Karpova emails from Halbig — a self-styled "national school safety consultant" who spent about a year as a Florida state trooper — to two Sandy Hook parents that had been forwarded to InfoWars. In one email, Halbig berated a mother for putting her child in danger and for passing herself off as a school security expert. In the other email, Halbig told Scarlett Lewis — whose son Jesse Lewis, 6, was killed in the Newtown, Conn., grade school along with 19 other students and six educators — that her lies about the shooting would soon be exposed "Do some serious soul searching," he wrote in the 2015 email. Lewis and Neil Heslin, Jesse's father, sued Jones in 2018 and were in the Austin courtroom Tuesday as part of a two-week trial that will determine how much money Jones will have to pay them for defamation and inflicting emotional distress. The parents are asking the jury to issue a $150 million judgment against Jones and his main company, Free Speech Systems. Karpova, however, declined to acknowledge Halbig's emails as harassing. "To me, this seems like a person who was very perturbed by the incident and horrified, in his mind, that the children were used for this tragedy," Karpova said. "I don't feel like he believes this is a person who has lost a child." Later, Karpova added: "I don't believe he's mocking her. I think he's just appalled." "So am I," Bankston said. After playing an InfoWars clip showing Jones and Halbig actively questioning the truth about Sandy Hook more than two years after the shooting, Bankston took a step back to ask: "Do you believe Neil and Scarlett, right here, do you believe these two people are fake parents who inflicted emotional distress on America?" https://www.statesman.com/story/new...ucer-lawyer-spar-over-sandy-hook/65384579007/ ---------- Ignorance is not an excuse in a defamation lawsuit and presenting his opinions as "facts" is what has gotten Alex Jones into trouble. wrbtrader