Alex Jones files for bankruptcy after Sandy Hook verdict

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has filed for a bankruptcy proceeding after he was ordered to pay almost $1.5bn (£1.2bn) for falsely claiming a 2012 school shooting had been a hoax.

Jones had been purchased to pay the damages towards the families of the victims of this Sandy Hook shooting following a variety of defamation trials earlier this present year.

The most known came in when a jury ordered him to pay very nearly $1bn adhering to a test in Connecticut october.

Jones hasn’t commented on the filing.

The documents – that have been filed in Houston, Texas on- state the Infowars host has between $1m and $10m of assets and between $1bn and $10bn of financial obligation friday.

They also estimate that the 48-year-old has between 50 and 99 creditors, such as the independently named family members of the victims plus an FBI representative whom taken care of immediately the assault.

Their show’s moms and dad business – complimentary Speech Systems – filed for bankruptcy in July.

The filing that is latest temporarily halts all proceedings in the Connecticut situation, including a scheduled hearing examining the way the families would receive the cash and just what assets might be included.

It could further delay payments because the complete case plays away in bankruptcy courts. It is unclear how money that’s much families will get.

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Following a filing, an attorney representing the families said “the bankruptcy system does not protect anyone who engages in intentional and attacks which can be egregious other people”.

“Like every other move that is cowardly Jones has made, this bankruptcy will not work,” Chris Mattei said in a declaration.

Jones, who founded the Infowars that is conspiracy-laden web site talk show, argued for years that the Sandy Hook shooting was a “staged” government plot to just take guns from Americans and that “no-one died”.

The moms and dads were called by him of this 20 kiddies whom passed away “crisis actors” and argued that a number of them never actually existed.

He now acknowledges the assault was “100% real”, a concession he produced in August at a defamation that is split in Texas.

Families who lost nearest and dearest into the shooting alleged Jones’ lies generated several years of death threats, intimidation along with other kinds of harassment from his followers.

Jones still faces a defamation that is third within the Sandy Hook shooting that starts in Texas later on this season.