Alex Jones Slapped With $965 Million Defamation Judgment… And He Still Has Another Defamation Trial On Tap

ByJoseph Gibsonon October 13, 2022inArticles›Celebrity News

It’s been roughly two months since a jury in Texas decided that Alex Jones should pay $49 million in damages to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. According to the suit, Jones told viewers of his “Infowars” broadcasts that the massacre was a government hoax perpetrated to take guns away.

You may not have realized it, but that Texas judgment was actually one of THREE defamation trials Alex Jones is up against. The judgment from the second case just came down on Wednesday. And it’s a whopper.

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On Wednesday afternoon, a Connecticut jury decided Alex Jones must pay plaintiffs in his case $965 million in damages. That’s not a typo. Let me repeat:

$965 million

So in other words, with one more trial to go, Alex is already on the hook for a little over $1 billion.

Prosecutors representing the plaintiffs in the Connecticut case were requesting damages totaling $550 million, an amount that the jury nearly doubled. Jones is also on the hook for legal fees in the case.

Here’s another fun fact: Texas has strict limits on punitive damages which will significantly reduce the first $45 million penalty. Connecticut has no such caps, which theoretically means Jones will be on the hook for the full amount.

In any case, regardless of the legal twists and turns that happen next, the jury sent a clear message to Jones and his Free Speech Systems company.

Jones wasn’t physically present in the courtroom but he did offer commentary on the delivery of the verdict on his “Infowars” show, pledging to appeal the decision and asking his audience to continue making donations and buying his products so he can afford to fight the Sandy Hook lawsuits in court.

During the Texas case, Jones testified that he would be unable to afford any judgment exceeding $2 million, but an economist offered testimony disputing him, saying he and his company were worth up to $270 million. Meanwhile, Jones’s company has filed for bankruptcy protection.

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Alex Jones Offers To Pay $55 Million Over Next Decade To Clear $1.5 Billion Sandy Hook Defamation Damages

ByJoseph Gibsonon December 21, 2023inArticles›Celebrity News

Disgraced and reputedly bankrupt broadcaster Alex Jones is on the hook for some $1.5 billion in damages for defaming families of the Sandy Hook shooting across two lawsuits, with still more fallout from the case still to come. Now, Jones has offered to settle up with a payment of that would come to a minimum total of $55 million, coming from a proportion of his income and proceeds from the sale of property over the next ten years.

$55 million is a lot of money but little more than a drop in a $1.5 billion bucket, and the Sandy Hook families who won their cases in court have filed a motion of their own to liquidate practically everything Jones owns in order to get what is rightfully theirs.

Now, both proposals are on their way to US Bankruptcy Court in Houston, Texas, where they will be debated between now and February, when hearings and a final decision on the matter are currently scheduled.

Christopher Mattei, a Connecticut attorney representing the Sandy Hook families, released a press statement criticizing Jones’s offer:

“The families’ plan is the only feasible path for ensuring that Jones’ assets are quickly distributed to those he has harassed for more than a decade.”

The Jones proposal has him paying out at least $5.5 million per year over ten years, a similar figure to what his company Free Speech Systems had offered a month earlier.

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Attorneys representing Sandy Hook families have their work cut out for them in securing the settlement. They’ve taken issue with Jones’s reported personal spending topping out at $90,000 per month over the course of 2023, and they’ve filed another lawsuit accusing him of hiding millions of dollars from creditors, an allegation that an attorney for Jones dismissed as “ridiculous.”

Jones is also in the process of appealing the defamation awards as well, asserting that his claims that the shooting was a hoax and that the surviving family members were “crisis actors” fell under protected free speech, something that few if any judges or juries that have considered the matter have agreed with so far.

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