To the American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones – nicknamed by comedian Stephen Colbert the “Papa Bear” of international conspiracy – his headlong rush is over, although it doesn’t seem like he has any intention of giving up. A Texas court ruled that the founder of the department store of the conspiracy that revolved around the Internet information wars had to sell his company “in pieces” to meet the payment of 1.015 million dollars (908 million euros) that he owes to the families of the Sandy Hook preschool shooting (Newton, Connecticut) on 14 December 2012. Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old young man, murdered 20 children and six adults (and injured 26 other people) before committing suicide.
Permanent closure could be the fate of Infowars, the biggest prank factory on the planet and the mirror in which everyone else looks. This is what fears the popular North American presenter who, last Monday, sent a message to his followers via the social network “the good ones manage to win the auction”.
Last Monday, on his show, Alexander Emerick Jones explained that potential buyers were already coming to his studio to present offers. At the same time, he continued to fuel the latest rumors that emerged after the November 6 elections, such as that the Democrats were considering assassinating Trump to install Kamala Harris in the White House, that they would have tried to steal the elections through a widespread fraud or that the Pentagon is trying to prevent the newly elected president from accessing the White House.
The Sandy Hook affair
Although Sandy Hook was the most serious school shooting in U.S. history, Alex Jones assured from the first moment that the crime never happened and that the victims’ relatives were “actors of the crisis”, a concept that has quickly spread around the world. of conspiracy.
For years, the Texan presenter insisted on his television program and his website, information warsthat it was all a government plan to pave the way for confiscating guns from the people of the state. While, The families of the victims were harassed and threatened because of these statements. This was not the first time that his obsession with the Second Amendment to the Constitution – the one which guarantees the right to bear arms – led him to make similar statements.
Jones insisted on his thesis for years, which eventually tired the victims’ relatives – whom he regularly mocked – and he had to face two very similar trials: one in Texas (where his store) against two families, and another in Connecticut. (against more than 20 families and an FBI agent who investigated the case). The whole process was recorded in the documentary The Truth Against Alex Jones (Dan Reed, 2024), visible on the Prime Video platform.
The founder of information wars He lost both trials in the same way: he refused to collaborate with justice and was therefore declared in absentia, which amounted to an automatic conviction for the crimes with which he was accused.
So when he got to the stand, The only thing the jury had to decide was how much to pay each family.. The first of the trials took place in 2021 and the second in 2022. The total amount – the sum of the two convictions, 60 million in one and 965 in the others – amounted to 1,015 million dollars, but Jones asked to declare bankruptcy to avoid paying. Last Tuesday, a court based in Huston decided that as of November 13, Free Speech Systems (the company which brings together its entire activity, including brands, and of which it owns 100%) will be put up for auction to make face (at least partially)) compensation.
The sentences only concern his company Free Speech Systems, so he will keep his home and unrelated assets (his personal fortune is estimated at $9 million).
Your answer
During the trials, Jones sold the case to his supporters as a vendetta globalists against him for exposing their dirty laundry. He says it’s all an attack on the Constitution’s First Amendment – which protects free speech – and an attempt to silence him for defending the right to bear arms.
Upon hearing the news, Jones said in Infowars who will continue to act as a journalist and encouraged his followers to buy more products on his websites, increase donations and even invited them to participate in the auction in order to get his business back. What has been clearly established is that He’s as willing to start from scratch as he is to try anything to avoid paying..
To try to reach an agreement, those involved offered him a payment plan of $80 million over ten years, plus 50% of anything he earned above €9 million. Jones rejected the deal and offered only four million a year. During the negotiation, the presenter attempted to increase his salary (from $520,000 per year to $1.5 million) to increase his company’s expenses and reduce profits. The judge rejected his request.
In 2017, he was already ordered to pay 47,000 per month to his former wife, Kelly Jones. During the trial, he even declared that in his program he limited himself to “playing a character” and that Judging him for this would be like suing Jack Nicholson for playing the Joker.. His reputation within his parish was not affected at all. During the Sandy Hook trials, particularly the first, he followed the same policy of “playing a character”: while on the stand he asserted that the attack had indeed happened, in his program he continued to do so. deny.
