To collect $1.5B from Alex Jones, Sandy Hook families vote to liquidate assets

Left: Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court during Sandy Hook defamation damages trial in 2022. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)/Right: White roses with the faces of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are attached to a telephone pole near the school. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Left: Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court, Sept. 22, 2022, in Waterbury, Conn. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File). Right: White roses with the faces of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are attached to a telephone pole near the school. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

In order to collect on the $1.5 billion in defamation judgments they won against Alex Jones, the families of the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut have voted to liquidate the far-right conspiracy theorist’s assets.

The unanimous decision was filed on the docket at the federal bankruptcy court in Texas where the Infowars host’s empire — which also includes the company Free Speech Systems — is being picked over more than a year after he first filed a petition for personal bankruptcy protection. He filed for bankruptcy for Free Speech Systems while he was on trial in July 2023. Ultimately, he was held liable for his defamatory comments about the 2012 mass shooting in Newton, including repeatedly calling the tragedy a “giant hoax.”

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