A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones owes for repeatedly calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
In an "emergency" motion filed Sunday in Houston, trustee Christopher Murray indicated publicly for the first time that he intends to "conduct an orderly wind-down" of the operations of Infowars' parent company and "liquidate its inventory." Murray, who was appointed by a federal judge to oversee the assets in Jones' personal bankruptcy case, did not give a timetable for the liquidation.
Jones has been saying on his web and radio shows that he expects Infowars to operate for a few more months before it is shut down because of the bankruptcy. But he has vowed to continue his bombastic broadcasts in some other fashion, possibly on social media. He also had talked about someone else buying the company and allowing him to continue his shows as an employee.
Does this include his own home and/or other properties as well? If it's just his business assets then what is there besides his name and show? Hopefully substantial funds in the bank, assuming they weren't shovelled off shore.
I can't imagine his stock of bullshit supplements are worth much anymore.
Legal Eagle did a video on this recently. He has a federal and a few state trials and a personal and business bankruptcy thing going. The families are in disagreement on how to get the money. Some want to shut the show down and don't care about the money, and some want to go the seize assets route.
There are different federal and state cases to resolve. He also gave his parents some of his assets and he tries to sell his parents supplements now in order to work around the court order since it's his parents making money and not him.
I believe he did the Texas two-step beforehand and his wife owns the bulk of the assets and he will be enjoying a nice life... The selling off of the studio assets is substantial, but ultimately, anyone can do guy with a microphone news.
... Honestly... Honest to God... what might have actually made more money for the family is allowing Alex Jones & Infowars to persist indefinitely and simply seize all of the profits.
The families don't care about the money, the point is to get him to stop doing this. He's still saying Sandy Hook was a false flag, just like he does every single time there's a shooting. He's still spreading propaganda and lies every day, and still defaming people. His own lawyer argued that the amount was excessive specifically because Alex was going to keep doing the same thing anyway so the fine wouldn't matter and they might as well reduce it. This isn't about letting him do what he does and seizing the profits.
There are so many people doing guy with a microphone news, as you put it (not that InfoWars can be considered news), that without his studio and company he'll just be another one of these extremist grifters ranting on X 24/7 and will hopefully fade away. Reducing the amount of damage he can do to people is the goal.
pretty biased and ridiculous witchhunt, but also Jones is probably not a "conservative" and is just playing a part of being tarred and feathered for the other side's pleasure. He was just hired to try to make his positions look "ridiculous". He was kind of funny and pushed some true views though
there were a lot of strange things that happened with the incident in question, I'd encourage you to do more research on the topic to see what truly happened
Do you have some of the main points? His role was / is basically to tell certain truths and then misdirect from more important ones. I'm trying to think of what a good analogy is on the left... a lot of the left criticizes big corporations, but doesn't realize the big government they want to come in and regulate those same corporations is run by the same people? AJ was like a person criticizing big corporations... and then saying, here, let the government (which is run by these corporations) solve these problems... (not going to work out)
Here is as good of a place as any to say it: the decision against him is bullshit.
Yes, he advanced a crazy conspiracy theory and I can see how it is harmful to the victims family that some very strange people have called them up and harassed them. But the answer to that is to punish exclusively the relevant parties - I do not believe Jones revealed any personal information about them, nor did he ever encourage people to harass them, so what's the deal with him owing something like 1.5 billion?
Because defamation is illegal. And just because you don't directly tell people to harass others, if you tell lies with the intention of that happening, it's also illegal.
Also doesn't help that he didn't show up to several trials (which made him lose by default) and lied about damn near everything.
As for the amount, IDK. That part does seem excessive but even 5% of it would likely still bankrupt the guy.
I do not understand this - he advanced a conspiracy involving a mass shooting. Only in the most indirect way would he really be defaming anyone by implying that the official narrative is a lie. Potentially he has implied that the parents are in on the lie - I don't see any other way as to how it would be remotely rational to charge him - but it seems a bit bizarre to not allow his right to free speech take precedent since he is commenting on a public event involving public discourse and it is not designed to deprive anyone involved of their civil rights or negatively impact their business.
Also doesn’t help that he didn’t show up to several trials (which made him lose by default) and lied about damn near everything.
I am not that familiar with him, but the guy seems unstable, and it would not be beyond the pale to suggest he has a psychological disorder that should be considered in this, right... If you were to tell me that Alex Jones has issues distinguishing truth from fiction and keeping a story straight in his head and was not to be held culpable in a conventional sense for the lies he said, I would not be surprised.
I suppose you'd need some court approved psychologist to make that part of the offiical narrative, but it certainly should be part of the unofficial considerations of everyone involved with this - we are taking a guy with very little credibility who is famous for having an audience of people who want to hear wild, crazy thing, either because they believe in garbage or for entertainment... Having him be seriously sued into the dirt and financially destroyed forever for this is pretty wild for any free country to do.
The funny thing is, he absolutely did all those things. He sent "correspondents" to harass parents, on camera, at a funeral for the kids. He told viewers to follow and dox parents who tried to hide, and got one of his "investigators" to do a segment outside their home, after they had moved and changed their name.
He didn't just mess with the trial, he did everything possible to derail and rig the legal process and was basically daring the judge to charge him with contempt. Including calling the judge a literal, biblical demon on the morning of a hearing.
The only tragedy here is that he didn't have to sell everything off immediately, and instead got 2 years to burn as much as possible and hide the rest in his parents' name.