Law & Crime
The families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims are asking a federal bankruptcy court to liquidate conspiracy theorist Alex Jones‘ far-right media company to help him pay out the $1.5 billion judgment levied against him for his repeated defamatory statements about the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, including his false claim that the tragedy was a “giant hoax.”
In an emergency motion filed Sunday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, the families implored the presiding judge to order Free Speech Systems LLC, the parent company to Infowars, to sell off its assets and put the proceeds toward paying out the families he defamed.
The families argued that Free Speech Systems has “no hope” of coming up with a reorganization plan and has “failed to demonstrate any hope of beginning to satisfy the Connecticut Families’ claims.”
The filing specifically points to public comments Jones made over the weekend on an episode of his radio show/podcast titled “Emergency Broadcast,” in which he stated that he believed the case against Free Speech Systems would be dismissed, and that he would “employ whatever means necessary” to regain full control of the company.
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