Alex Jones’s Conspiracy Theory Empire to Be Liquidated to Pay Sandy Hook Victims He Defamed

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Conspiracy theorist website InfoWars will be liquidated and its assets will be used to help pay the $1.5 billion judgment Alex Jones, the site’s owner, owes to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

The Associated Press reported on Monday that “In an ’emergency’ motion filed Sunday in Houston, trustee Christopher Murray indicated publicly for the first time that he intends to ‘conduct an orderly wind-down’ of the operations of Infowars’ parent company and ‘liquidate its inventory.’ Murray, who was appointed by a federal judge to oversee the assets in Jones’ personal bankruptcy case, did not give a timetable for the liquidation.”

Jones was found guilty in October of 2022 of defaming the families of the victims by repeatedly claiming the shooting was a hoax and those involved were “crisis actors.” Jones’s wild claims led to years of harassment for the grieving parents, including his followers desecrating the graves of the murdered children. Jone’s quickly declared bankruptcy in December of 2022 in what many saw as a bid to not pay the damages. The AP added:

Jones has been saying on his web and radio shows that he expects Infowars to operate for a few more months before it is shut down because of the bankruptcy. But he has vowed to continue his bombastic broadcasts in some other fashion, possibly on social media. He also had talked about someone else buying the company and allowing him to continue his shows as an employee.

In mid-June federal Judge Christopher Lopez moved to convert Jones’s personal bankruptcy into a liquidation of his personal assets to pay toward the judgment.

Read the full report here.