Judge Won’t Let Alex Jones Use Bankruptcy to Avoid Sandy Hook Damages
Judge Won’t Let Alex Jones Use Bankruptcy to Avoid Sandy Hook Damages
A Texas court ruling means the Infowars broadcaster must pay most of the $1.4 billion he owes Sandy Hook families, regardless of whether his business survives.
This wasn't a huge surprise, punitive damages aren't dischargable through bankruptcy. It's not supposed to absolve bad actors and let them start scamming again, so if they've fucked around it's more than willing to keep letting them find out.
39I love this for him.
34Good. I hope his great great grandchildren are left cursing his name because they inherit his debt. May his name be cursed, and his face fucked by demons in hell forever.
17The sins of your fellow humans are not yours. He committed crimes, not his children and they shouldn't be punished for it.
17I do hope any savings he put away from them are liquidated though. They were paid for by his victims, his kids were in innocent but that shouldn't mean they get a free ride either. Let them go to public school. Like the students of sandy hook.
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His kids will probably grow up cursing his name anyway, inheriting debt is pretty unfair.
However other shitty business associates who helped him spread this dangerous bullshit should be liable - as well as those who help him hide his money. These are the people to go after.
17You support inheriting debt? That's such a shit viewpoint
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15Good. Those poor families deserve justice. Alex did this to himself. When the families first pleaded with he could have stopped. He could have ended it there. Post an apology video. Say you were wrong. His viewership wouldn’t noticed. His whole stick constantly shifts the conspiracy to mold whatever story he needs. But no he doubled down. Even during the trial he 100% refused to go along with discovery. He stalled, stymied the courts. Finally the courts got tired and the judge granted him guilty verdict via summary judgment.
12Haha, get fucked Alex! :D
10Archived on October 20, 2023: Judge Won’t Let Alex Jones Use Bankruptcy to Avoid Sandy Hook Damages
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The judge in Alex Jones’s bankruptcy case ruled on Thursday that he will not be allowed to use his Chapter 11 filing to evade paying more than $1 billion in verdicts to families of the Sandy Hook shooting.
The ruling by Judge Christopher Lopez in a Houston bankruptcy court means that Mr. Jones, the Infowars conspiracy broadcaster, will likely be working the rest of his life to pay his debt to the families.
Mr. Jones spent years spreading lies that the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax aimed at confiscating Americans’ firearms.
But he excluded $323 million in attorneys’ fees and costs awarded in the Connecticut lawsuit, ruling that the trial record did not clearly establish that those damages stemmed from “willful and malicious” actions.
So while he was “reckless,” his lawyer Chris Davis said, “the idea that he had a willful and malicious intent is in substantial and factual dispute,” and needed to be adjudicated separately in court.
Though the ruling largely closes off a forced outcome like that, settlement talks continue because Mr. Jones’s current assets are likely not sufficient to cover the damages in full.
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