Company tied to Alex Jones doubles offer to buy Infowars
Satirical news site The Onion won the outlet in a bankruptcy auction that was later voided by a federal judge in Texas.
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Satirical news site The Onion won the outlet in a bankruptcy auction that was later voided by a federal judge in Texas.
The judge criticized the auction process as flawed and said the outcome "left a lot of money on the table" for Sandy Hook families.
Satirical publication The Onion, with the support of Sandy Hook families, purchased the bankrupt site of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Under the terms of the court-ordered sale, anyone can bid for Infowars' assets. The outcome could determine Alex Jones' broadcasting fate.
Lawyers for the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School filed an emergency motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston to liquidate Alex Jones' media company.
The conspiracy theorist has proposed paying the families of Sandy Hook victims a fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion which they were awarded in judgements against him.
Families of those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have made an offer to Alex Jones to pay only a fraction of the $1.5 billion in legal judgments they won against him.
A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.
Lawyers for several families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting are criticizing Alex Jones' personal spending as they seek nearly $1.5 billion they won in lawsuits against the Infowars host.
A lawyer for Alex Jones has been suspended from practicing law in Connecticut for six months for improperly giving Jones' other attorneys in Texas confidential documents.
Cases can move forward against Alex Jones regarding the nearly $1.5 billion he's ordered to pay families of Sandy Hook victims over his conspiracy theories about the 2012 school massacre.
Jones has laughed at the judgements on his Infowars show, saying he has less than $2 million to his name and won't be able to pay such high amounts.
Infowars host Alex Jones and his company were ordered by a judge Thursday to pay an extra $473 million for promoting false conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Jones filed the requests Friday, saying Judge Barbara Bellis' pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial and "a substantial miscarriage of justice."
The verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host.
The six-person jury could begin deliberations by the day's end in the lawsuit, one of several filed against Jones by relatives of the 26 people killed in the mass shooting.
Jones is set to go on trial a second time for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
The far-right broadcaster and conspiracy theorist had called the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting "a hoax."
A jury ordered radio host Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre
Parents of a 6-year-old killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting described being put through a "living hell" of death threats and ongoing trauma.
Radio host Alex Jones was defiant during a lawsuit deposition in April when questioned about calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
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