Alex Jones ordered to pay $45.2M more over Sandy Hook lies
A Texas jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, adding to the $4.1 million he has to pay for the suffering he put them through by claiming for years that the nation
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The Sandy Hook defamation cases have put Alex Jones’s finances under scrutiny.
The conspiracy theorist filed for bankruptcy for Infowars’ parent company, but lawyers for parents of the school shooting victims called it a ploy to shield him from paying damages.
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Jaa-a. Onkohan oikeasti.Bernard Pettingill, Jr., a forensic economist and former economics professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, testified on Friday that Mr. Jones “is a very successful man” and that his and Free Speech Systems’ combined net worth likely fell between $135 million and $270 million.
In its bankruptcy filing, Free Speech Systems reported $14.3 million in assets as of May 31, with $1.9 million in net income and nearly $11 million in product sales.
Free Speech Systems also had nearly $79.2 million in debts, 68 percent of it in the form of a note due to PQPR Holdings, an entity that names Mr. Jones as a manager.
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