The bankruptcy filing by Alex Jones comes weeks after he was ordered to pay more than $1 billion to the family of Sandy Hook massacre victims.
In that filing, the notorious conspiracy theorist estimates his liabilities to be between $1 billion and $10 billion, against assets of between $1 million and $10 million.The creditors identified by name in the bankruptcy filing include parents of children murdered on Dec. 14, 2012, at the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school, who had sued him successfully for defamation, as well as an FBI agent who responded to the scene of the massacre.
The largest unsecured creditor in the filing was Robbie Parker, whose 6-year-old daughter Emilie was killed that day. Parker, who was awarded $120 million in damages from Jones, was accused with others by Jones of being "crisis actors" who participated in a conspiracy to stage the shooting.in damages to Sandy Hook relatives. The judge in that case added $473 million in punitive damages to that bill the following month.
Jones' company, Free Speech Systems Inc., filed for bankruptcy protection in July. That filing came weeks before another civil jury in Texas awarded damages of $50 million from Jones and his company to the mother of a child murdered at Sandy Hook. Relatives of Sandy Hook victims have said the harassment they received on the heels of the shooting by people who believed the massacre was a hoax has continued until this year.
On Thursday, Jones conducted an interview with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. During that Infowars appears,
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