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  • [Karma is a Bitch!] Judge Rules Rightwing Icon Alex Jones Can't Use Ban

    From J. Hammersmith@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 22 01:07:57 2023
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    Judge rules Alex Jones can�t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families


    HOUSTON (AP) � A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot
    use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was
    a hoax.

    The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the nation�s deadliest school shooting. U.S. District Judge Christopher Lopez of Houston issued the ruling Thursday.

    Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year and more recent financial documents submitted by his attorneys put his personal net worth around $14 million. But Lopez ruled that those protections do not apply over findings of �willful and malicious� conduct.


    An attorney for Jones did not immediately return a message seeking comment Friday.

    On his Infowars website, Jones posted a video saying the judge�s ruling will have little practical effect because he is over $1 million in debt personally and has little to pay the Sandy Hook families. He also said he continues to appeal the verdicts.

    �It�s all academic. I don�t have a million dollars,� he said. �My company has
    a few million, but that�s just to pay the bills and my product in the future. So we are literally on empty. So this idea that ... we�re going to take your money away doesn�t exist because the money doesn�t exist. It�s all political.

    �At the end of the day, they won�t take my free speech away,� he said. �I�m still going to be on the air one way or another.�

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  • From April Cool@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Oct 21 22:13:46 2023
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    In article <uh1sld$22cgr$[email protected]>, J. Hammersmith <[email protected]> wrote:

    Judge rules Alex Jones can�t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families


    HOUSTON (AP) � A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.

    The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the nation�s deadliest school shooting. U.S. District Judge Christopher Lopez of Houston issued the ruling Thursday.

    Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year and more recent financial documents submitted by his attorneys put his personal net worth around $14 million. But Lopez ruled that those protections do not apply over findings of �willful and malicious� conduct.


    An attorney for Jones did not immediately return a message seeking comment Friday.

    On his Infowars website, Jones posted a video saying the judge�s ruling will have little practical effect because he is over $1 million in debt personally and has little to pay the Sandy Hook families. He also said he continues to appeal the verdicts.

    �It�s all academic. I don�t have a million dollars,� he said. �My company has a few million, but that�s just to pay the bills and my product in the future. So we are literally on empty.


    He'd just said that his company (i.e., him) had a few million dollars
    "to pay bills." He's lying about not having the money to pay at least
    part of these judgments.


    So this idea that ... we�re going to take your
    money away doesn�t exist because the money doesn�t exist. It�s all political.

    �At the end of the day, they won�t take my free speech away,� he said. �I�m still going to be on the air one way or another.�


    Nobody has ever tried to deprive this bozo of speaking freely. Pick a streetcorner and have at it, fool.

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