Judge Orders Alex Jones to Liquidate Assets to Pay for Sandy Hook Lies

It looks like Alex Jones may — finally — lose it all, and the families of Sandy Hook victims want to make sure that the conspiracy theorist has no recourse to rebuild his misinformation empire. Ahead of a bankruptcy hearing on Friday that will likely force Jones to sell off his stake in Infowars, Sandy Hook families have requested that his properties be placed under trust to “safeguard assets and prevent further value destruction.”

Jones — who owes nearly $1.5 billion to the relatives of children killed in the 2012 massacre — has been accused of manipulating his assets to skirt the massive debt owed to the victims of his on-air statements.

The Infowars founder and host claimed that the mass shooting — in which 20 elementary school students were killed — was a hoax, and that both the murdered children and parents of the victims were crisis actors. In a series of defamation lawsuits that were litigated in 2022, Sandy Hook families were awarded $42.5 million by a Texas court. In a separate lawsuit filed in Connecticut, Jones was ordered to pay close to $1 billion in damages and $473 million in legal fees to the families. Jones filed for bankruptcy soon after the trials concluded, and the families have yet to receive a single dollar.

Last week, Jones petitioned the judge to convert the bankruptcy filing into a liquidation. The families argue that Jones is now attempting to remove businesses and assets out of the umbrella of Infowar’s parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC., in order to prevent their seizure and liquidation by the court.  Shortly after an agreement was reached with the families, Jones had a tear-filled meltdown on what he said would be one of the last Infowars broadcasts, calling the ordeal a “hard fight.”

The “flagrant and repeated attempts to funnel property of the FSS estate to an unaffiliated entity owned by his father — while using the Infowars brand name and infrastructure to do so — is intentionally value destructive,” Friday’s filing said.

Earlier this week, the families also requested that the court seize Jones’ social media accounts, arguing that his large social media following was “no different than a customer list of any other liquidating business.” They accused Jones of using his social media accounts to redirect Infowars followers and customers to businesses owned by his father, which would be shielded from bankruptcy proceedings.

In a video posted early Friday morning — as he drove to Houston for the hearing — Jones claimed that the “CIA, FBI” use the Sandy Hook families as “front people.”

“Whenever you hear ‘Sandy Hook Families,’ that FBI, CIA that’s on top of that.”

Jones also argued that his social media accounts were his “personal thing,” and that his father runs a fully independent business that only purchases advertising on Free Speech Systems.

“I didn’t kill those kids,” Jones said, “I barely ever talked about them, I covered the internet questioning the shooting […] Now they are literally trying to take over my social media.”

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