“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,” attorney Chris Mattei said in a statement.
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, who spread outrageous claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax. The Texas court filing, which also included two other businesses owned by Jones, allows the company to pause civil litigation while reorganizing — a move the lawyer representing the Sandy Hook families called a stall tactic.
“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,” attorney. The bankruptcy filing Sunday, which also protects his companies IWHealth and PrisonPlanetTV, claims InfoWars has estimated assets of $50,000 or less and liabilities between $1 million and $10 million.
Jones, a right-wing conspiracy theorist and provocateur, is facing big legal penalties for promulgating the bogus claim that the Newtown, Connecticut massacre — which left 20 young school kids and six educators dead — was a false flag operation by the government to justify taking Americans’ guns away. “Why do governments stage these things? To get our guns,” heAfter getting harassed and receiving death threats, the grieving Sandy Hook families pursued legal action against Jones in 2018.
that the horrific mass shooting was real, but declined to take responsibility for his lies, instead blaming his rhetoric on “a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged.”
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