trustee's office - a Justice Department agency that oversees bankruptcy cases - had questioned the legitimacy of the three companies' bankruptcy filing and sought to throw out the case, saying it was only a tactic to delay the lawsuits. Alex Jones has finally appeared at a deposition in his legal battle with the families of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre after a court held him in contempt for skipping questioning twice.
Those lawsuits will continue against Jones himself and his largest moneymaking company, Free Speech Systems. A Texas state judge on Wednesday delayed the upcoming jury trial for right-wing radio show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over false claims he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook.
Infowars, Prison Planet TV and IW Health consented to dismissing the bankruptcy case last week after the families agreed to drop the three companies from their defamation lawsuits. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who is currently being sued by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting, told his audience Tuesday evening that the Uvalde, Texas massacre is. Relatives of eight of the 20 first graders and six educators killed in the massacre and an FBI agent who responded to the school in Newtown, Connecticut, are suing Jones and Free Speech Systems. Jones, based in Austin, Texas, has since said he believes the shooting did occur. Alex Jones, the bombastic radio host who has already begun to face the legal consequences of insisting that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, says that he shouldn't be held in contempt for. The families' lawsuits say they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones' followers because of the hoax conspiracy. Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said it was a 'form of psychosis' that caused him to believe certain events - like the Sandy Hook massacre - were staged. Far-right radio host Alex Jones, widely known for baselessly claiming that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, was found guilty in all four defamation suits filed by families of victims of. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was found liable for damages in three lawsuits filed by parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims in connection with his false claims that the 2012 massacre was a hoax. The judge's action allows the parents' defamation lawsuits against Jones to continue in Texas and Connecticut, where trials are pending on how much he should pay families after judges in both states found Jones and his companies liable for damages. Infowars host Alex Jones offered to pay US120,000 per plaintiff to resolve a lawsuit by relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who said he defamed them by. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez approved the deal after a brief court hearing. A federal judge in Texas on Friday dismissed the bankruptcy protection case of Infowars and two other companies controlled by Alex Jones, the result of an agreement between lawyers for the conspiracy theorist and parents of some of the children slain in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.