Alex Jones asks to liquidate assets in $1.5bn debt: Legal documents show that right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a US court to sell off his assets. This could help him start paying the families of school shooting victims the money he owes them for damages.
Families of those killed at Sandy Hook have not yet seen any of the $1.5bn (£1.32bn) that Mr. Jones was ordered to pay them in 2022. Some of the families have been harassed because of Mr. Jones’s claims, and the request, which was made in a Texas court on Thursday, could speed up payments to them.
We have asked Mr. Jones and his media company Infowars for a response.
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Court records show that Mr. Jones has asked the court to change his previous personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy claim to Chapter 7. This would let the TV star sell all of his assets instead of trying to get his finances back in order.
It was written in the filing that “there is no reasonable prospect of a successful reorganization.” This is why the lawyers for him filed for Chapter 7.
Alex Jones asks to liquidate assets in $1.5bn debt
The request seems to be in line with a settlement offer made by the families of the Sandy Hook victims in 2023. That offer said Mr. Jones could go bankrupt and pay at least $85 million (£67 million) over 10 years.
One of Mr. Jones’s things that could be sold is his share of Free Speech Systems, the company that runs his Infowars media source.
Late in 2022, both Mr. Jones and Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy. This meant that victims might not get their money right away. Last year, a judge said that Mr. Jones would still have to pay the settlement, even though he had filed for bankruptcy.
Mr. Jones was told in 2022 to pay the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims $1.5bn (£1.32bn) in defamation suits because he made false claims about the deaths of their loved ones at a school in a suburban Connecticut town in 2012.
Mr. Jones, who is 50 years old, lied for years that the attack, in which 20 young children and six staff members were killed, was “staged” as part of a complex plot to limit gun rights.
Even though his theories were not true, many of them were spread widely and caused threats of violence against the families of the victims. These ideas are now being used to question other mass killings in the US.
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In 2022, Mr. Jones told a court in Texas that he was wrong and that the killings were “100% real.” A lawyer for the families of the Sandy Hook victims told the BBC on Friday, “Making Alex Jones file for bankruptcy and sell his assets is a big step toward holding him accountable for his wrongdoing.” He also said, “But this is just the first step we plan to take to bring him to justice.”
