Alex Jones accused of trying to shield assets as Sandy Hook families seek payment on $1B judgment
Alex Jones accused of trying to shield assets as Sandy Hook families seek payment on $1B judgment
The trustee overseeing Alex Jones’ personal bankruptcy case is accusing the far-right conspiracy theorist of trying to shield more than $5 million from his creditors.
The trustee overseeing Infowars host Alex Jones’ personal bankruptcy case is accusing the far-right conspiracy theorist of trying to shield more than $5 million from creditors, including relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut.
Three new lawsuits filed by the trustee on Friday alleging fraudulent asset transfers are the latest developments in Jones’ long-running bankruptcy case, which has been pending in federal court in Houston for more than two years. In financial statements filed in bankruptcy court last year, Jones listed his net worth at $8.4 million.
The Sandy Hook families won nearly $1.5 billion in judgments in 2022 in lawsuits filed in Connecticut and Texas accusing Jones of defamation and emotional distress for saying the school shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators was a hoax. Victims’ relatives testified in court about being terrorized by Jones’ supporters.
It shouldn't be hard to prove. He was talking about it on air at different points.
It's already proven and decided. Not only was it proven. He's continued to make the same claims post-judgement. Completely unrepentant.
It's getting him to actually pay the penalties that's turning out to be the difficult part.
He shifts assets to under his father's name. He lies about the size of his assets. He makes side deals with external funders to outbid buyers and gift assets back to him. He's just a bad dude.
We already know he lies on air. I'm not saying he's lying but him doing so to get more people to buy his shitty products is very plausible.
He owes $1.5 billion. He shouldn't have anything, ANYTHING. Take everything he has, and leave him homeless, penniless, and naked.
Thanks but we don’t want to see him naked
Dan over at Knowledge Fight has been cataloging how Alex has been working to (lazily) shield his assets for at least a year or two now. He's barely trying to hide it at all, and is basically telegraphing this on air and almost feels like he's trying to give them more ammo against him, but he is also very stupid.
Perhaps he's lazily hiding some of his assets in plain and obvious ways to throw the courts off the scent of stuff he's shielding more effectively and discretely.
I'm tired of them pretending they're the good guys saying we're the bad guys.
I love you.
Lol everything he has done in these lawsuits was for the sole purpose to hide his money.
5 different corporate representatives were sent and the court ruled every single testimony of those as non responsive to discovery. The last corporate rep to testify was a hired outside lawyer with no experience in civil law, no familiarity with Texas law and had no experience in financial matters. Why would you send someone as your corporate representative, who has no idea what's going on, or any experience in relevant fields? To obscure the process of discovery and to hide the money.
They’ve mentioned fraud. Is this a criminal trial? Please be a criminal trial!
Because Infowars’ assets are still tied up in the courts, Jones has been allowed to continue broadcasting his shows and hawking merchandise from Infowars’ Austin studio.
Well that's infuriating. Also bonus points for the AP trying to stay neutral and then throwing in the word "hawking".
Looks at the calendar
I mean he clearly has shielded them since there's still no payout. Incredible journalism.
IANAL but it seems like he’s really skirting the law here. Like I think it can be a felony.
That's a tiny hand