A decide has ordered that Alex Jones’s property be liquidated and bought to pay the $1.5 billion that he owes Sandy Hook households for defamation.
The AP reported:
A federal decide on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ private property and was nonetheless deciding on his firm’s separate chapter case.
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Choose Christopher Lopez accepted changing Jones’ proposed private chapter reorganization to a liquidation. He was nonetheless set to rule on whether or not Jones’ firm, Austin, Texas-based Free Speech Programs, additionally must be liquidated.
It wasn’t instantly clear what is going to occur to Free Speech Programs, which is Infowars’ dad or mum firm.
The decide might additionally rule that InfoWars should be liquidated and bought.
Jones has been crying on the air over having to promote his property, however the conspiracy theorist has tried each factor in his energy to cover property and keep away from paying the households who kids and family members had been killed in one of the vital horrific faculty shootings in US historical past.
The Friday ruling was based mostly on a private chapter declare that Jones first filed in 2022.
The monetary collapse for Jones has been years in coming, however what is going to actually finish his empire of conspiracies and lies is that if his enterprise is liquidated and bought.
Conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones are inclined to by no means go away. He’ll float across the edges in the dead of night conspiratorial corners of American media, however for the remainder of his life, any property that he acquires will go to pay the harmless individuals, and their deceased family members that he defamed.
