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Conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones may be hatching a plan to avoid paying nearly $1 billion dollars in damages to families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to “keep them in court for years”.
On Wednesday
Jones was ordered to pay $965 million in damages to eight families of those who
died in the gunfire as well as an FBI agent who responded to the scene of the
2012 massacre as a price for repeatedly calling the mass shooting a staged “hoax.”
The conspiracy
theory peddler said the incident was a government “false flag,” and called the victims’
families “crisis actors,” the Washington Examiner reported. Earlier this year,
a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $49 million in a separate case related to the
Sandy Hook massacre, according to the Washington Examiner.
Alex Jones
is also facing a third case brought by Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa,
whose son Noah died along with 25 others at Sandy Hook later this year.
Mr. Jones
indicated he intends to delay the payouts and possibly tries to lower the
amount he was ordered to pay.
"Do
these people think they're actually getting any money?" Jones said in his
Infowars studio during a live broadcast as the jury's compensatory damages fees
were recited Wednesday, according to the Washington Examiner. "Literally,
for hundreds of thousands of dollars, I can keep them in court for years,"
he added.
.Mr. Jones
said his defamation trial which he called a “kangaroo court” was overseen by “tyrant”
judges as part of his propaganda machinery.
On Wednesday Jones said he has less than $2 million on hand but a forensic economist who testified during the Texas trial in August said Jones’ entire net worth with his business entities was between $135 million and $270 million, according to the Washington Examiner.
The conspiracy
theorist appears to be heading for the rocks after his parent media company,
Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy. The parent company owes $54 million
in debt to PQPR Holdings, ancompany connected to the infowars founder,
according to the Washington Examiner.
Attorneys
for the families alleged that the PQPR money transfers were “fraudulent
transfers designed to siphon off” assets that could be affected by judgments,
citing that at one point in 2021, when defamation cases were active, Jones was
making payments up to $11,000 per day in favor of PQP{R, the Washington
Examiner reported.