Sandy Hook families reach settlement over Alex Jones' bankruptcy

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Source: Reuters

January 13, 2025 4:44 PM EST Updated 11 hours ago


NEW YORK, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Families who have sued Alex Jones over his false claims about the Sandy Hook massacre have resolved their disputes on how to divide the bankrupt conspiracy theorist's assets, clearing the way for a sale of Jones' Infowars platform, attorneys said at a Monday court hearing.

Joshua Wolfshohl, an attorney for the bankruptcy trustee in charge of selling Jones’ assets, told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston that the agreement would help get the bankruptcy "back on track" and clear the way for a new auction of Infowars.

Courts in Connecticut and Texas, where some of the families filed their lawsuits, have ruled Jones defamed the families by making repeated false claims that the 2012 school shooting, which killed 20 students and six staff members in Newton, Connecticut, was staged as part of a government plot to take guns away from Americans.

But the families had disagreed over how to pursue Jones’ assets after he declared bankruptcy in 2022, with the Texas-based families preferring to take more cash from Jones, while the Connecticut-based families prioritized the shutdown of Jones' Infowars company. The disagreement helped scuttle a previous auction of Jones’ Infowars company, after the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee decided to sell Infowars to the parody news site the Onion for $1.75 million with the Connecticut families’ backing.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/sandy-hook-families-reach-settlement-over-alex-jones-bankruptcy-2025-01-13/

[calimary]

1. Whatever leaves him the most destitute.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Exactly

With these 2 groups agreeing to agree with each other on how to proceed, that will allow them to combine forces to extract the max from him.

[rubbersole]

5. Destitute and quiet.

Can this please get him to STFU. Forever.

[Javaman]

7. narcissists like jones, sadly, will never shut up, however, his voice will be less heard. so that's something. nt

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. My concern is that some rich rethug will buy it...

And just put him right back on the air.

Make sure and impose some real prison time when he does not comply with the ruling. (If you think for one second that he will just let the entire thing go once he gets another platform, think again.) He will run his mouth, and when he does, there needs to be some serious slap down from it.

(There won't be because our justice system is corrupted. Just look at the way they are handling Rudy. But I can dream, can't I? I mean, I might as well since dreaming the only way I will ever see real justice and equality around here.)

[The Grand Illuminist]

6. That would depend on the purchaser.

nt

[Simeon Salus]

3. He should come out of this legal proceeding wearing a barrel.

[djacq]

4. Giuliani can learn this lesson from Jones.

Sooner or Later, you'll pay.

[Old Crank]

8. Send him out of court

wearing only a used jock strap and flip-flops.

[rubbersole]

10. Ewww...

...right before lunch.

[Old Crank]

11. No worse than how he hastreated

the country for many years.

[coffeenap]

12. From AP yesterday:

"A company linked to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is now offering over $7 million to buy his Infowars platforms, more than double what it proposed when it lost to The Onion satirical news outlet in a bankruptcy auction that was later voided by a judge, a lawyer in the case said Monday".