Alex Jones

A Connecticut jury ordered Infowars founder Alex Jones to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook shooting for the ...

The conspiracy theorist is ordered to pay damages after branding the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Jones and his entourage flew to Connecticut from Texas for the trial in a private jet. "The money does not go to these people," he said. Jones has disputed that figure. Jones broadcast himself watching Wednesday's verdict and scoffing at the court proceedings. Some described receiving a deluge of online hate and others said they had to move homes repeatedly for their own safety. Jones, for his part, slammed the proceedings as a "show trial" run by a "tyrant" judge and argued he was not to blame for the actions of his followers.

InfoWars founder hit with second massive damages award for lying about tragedy at Connecticut elementary school.

Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., ...

But an economist testified in the Texas proceeding that Jones and his company were worth as much as $270 million. He claimed it was a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to silence him and put him out of business. But both in the courtroom and on his show, he was defiant. Experts testified that Jones’ audience swelled when he made Sandy Hook a topic on the show, as did his revenue from product sales. Jones wasn’t there, but live video from the court played on a split screen on his Infowars show. A Texas jury in August awarded nearly $50 million to the parents of another slain child.

Far-right talk show host Alex Jones should pay eight families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and one first responder $965 million in ...

Right-wing political comentator Alex Jones' brand is selling conspiracy theories and lies in order to entertain his audience. Never in his wildest dreams ...

All the families of the victims decided to sue Alex Jones for defamation and this final verdict is the result of what happens when you use a masive platform to spew lies about a tragedy. Alex Jones attempted to apologize for what he did but the jury and the judge were not lenient at all towards him. In his second defamation trial, the jury reached a verdict and Jones will have to pay $965 million in damages to all the Sandy Hook families victims of this heinous lie about the shooting. This is what he said: "This must be what Hell's like, they just read out the damages. Hopefully, he will serve as an example of what happens when you subscribe to these lies. If he survives this verdict, he might even end up in jail because not paying what he was just ordered will get him there for sure.

WATERBURY, Conn. — The families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims on Wednesday won nearly $1 billion in damages from the Infowars fabulist Alex Jones, ...

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Verdict is second large judgement against Infowars host, who for years falsely claimed 2012 school massacre was staged.

The trial in Connecticut was marked by weeks of anguished testimony from the families, who filled the gallery each day and took turns recounting how Jones’ lies about Sandy Hook compounded their grief. Erica Lafferty, the daughter of slain Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung, testified that people mailed rape threats to her house. [$49.3m](/news/2022/8/6/alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-45m-in-damages-over-sandy-hook-lies) to a separate pair of Sandy Hook parents after a trial in Austin, Texas, where the headquarters of Jones’s Infowars conspiracy theory website is located. [Alex Jones](/news/2022/8/3/conspiracist-alex-jones-admits-falsehood-of-school-shooting-claim) to pay $965m in damages to the families of victims of the 2012 [Sandy Hook](/news/2022/8/6/alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-45m-in-damages-over-sandy-hook-lies) school shooting, over his lies that the tragedy was a hoax. [Jury orders Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $4m to Sandy Hook parents](/news/2022/8/5/texas-jury-orders-alex-jones-to-pay-4m-to-sandy-hook-parents) [Alex Jones ordered to pay $45m in damages over Sandy Hook lies](/news/2022/8/6/alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-45m-in-damages-over-sandy-hook-lies) [ordered to pay](/news/2022/8/6/alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-45m-in-damages-over-sandy-hook-lies) by a Texas jury in a similar case in August.

The jury in Connecticut, where the massacre took place, awarded $965 million to the families of eight Sandy Hook victims and an FBI agent who brought the ...

William Aldenberg, an FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook shooting and joined the families in filing the lawsuit against Jones, was awarded $90 million in damages. A Texas jury ordered Jones last month to pay nearly $50 million in damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son Jesse was killed by the 20-year-old gunman behind the Sandy Hook shooting. The jury in Connecticut, where the massacre took place, awarded $965 million to the families of eight Sandy Hook victims and an FBI agent who brought the defamation case against Jones.

Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show on a positive note, as Alex Jones owes almost $1 billion to the Sandy Hook families. Also, Bear 747 aka Colbert won Fat ...

2) After a voting fraud scandal, the bear nicknamed after him won Fat Bear Week. But Colbert the Bear won, and Alex Jones lost. This year, a cheating scandal rocked Fat Bear Week the same way it did

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965m (£869m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

Jones, who founded the conspiracy-laden Infowars website and talk show, argued for years that the massacre was a “staged” government plot to take guns from Americans and that “no-one died”. He called the parents of victims “crisis actors” and argued that some of them never actually existed. They alleged the right-wing radio host’s misinformation led to a decade of harassment and death threats.

The verdict is the second big judgment against him over his promotion of the lie that the massacre never happened, and that grieving families were actors ...

During the trial in Texas, he testified he couldn’t afford any judgment over $2 million. He claimed it was a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to silence him and put him out of business. It is unclear how much of the verdicts Jones can afford to pay. Experts testified that Jones’ audience swelled when he made Sandy Hook a topic on the show, as did his revenue from product sales. But both in the courtroom and on his show, he was defiant. [the shooting](https://apnews.com/article/violence-ee24f46a30d2426089b83bb2897dce4e) on Dec.

Stephen Colbert was grateful that “by the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones” on Wednesday.

Well, by the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones.” — STEPHEN COLBERT So he’s socially liberal, fiscally conservative, complete a-hole.” — STEPHEN COLBERT Pro life!” — JIMMY KIMMEL Because I’m not so sure Herschel knows how bread is made.” — JIMMY KIMMEL “That’s a lot of money! Because, you know how as humans, we have to accept the fact that sometimes bad things happen to good people?

The evidence is clear, as Wednesday's jury decision shows. Big publications must start calling Jones what he is.

The evidence is clear, as Wednesday's jury decision shows. Big publications must start calling Jones what he is.

[Post](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/alex-jones-sandy-hook-damages.html), Jones remains “a reckless purveyor of conspiracy theories”. Even yesterday, the Post and the NYT did not include “liar” in news stories detailing the extraordinary damages awarded by the jury. Nor was a “fabulist” responsible for insisting the parents of those murdered elementary schoolchildren were “actors”. Jones was also identified as a “fabulist” in the subheading attached to the story. “On a couple of occasions, we have used ‘lie’ to describe something President Trump said.” He lied when he said on his Infowars program that the parents of all the dead children were “crisis actors”. He lied when he said the carnage “looked like a drill”. Since “using ‘lie’ repeatedly could feed the mistaken notion that we’re taking political sides. This is not a new phenomenon. The German Brothers Grimm and the celebrated Honduran short-story teller Augusto Monterroso are among a litany of literary icons of this fantastical genre. Trump is addicted to lying. The word has a hint of child-like innocence about it, too.

Infowars host punished over promotion of lie 2012 massacre never happened. Plus, 70% of animal populations wiped out since 1970.

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Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay a massive sum for false claims that the 2012 mass shooting was a hoax.

[said the verdict shows “the truth matters.”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/12/alex-jones-sandy-hook-verdict/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5) Jones’s supporters cast it as an attack on freedom of speech. [ordered to pay nearly $1 billion](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/12/alex-jones-sandy-hook-verdict/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for spreading the lie that the massacre was staged — a stunning verdict [that one lawyer called](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6LU1rm8LCg&t=523s) “probably one of the largest defamation verdicts in U.S. The compensatory damages awarded Wednesday by a Connecticut jury were the largest so far in several lawsuits filed by families of victims in the attack that killed 20 children and six educators in Newtown, Conn.

"The money you donate does not go to these people. It goes to fight this fraud." Those were the words of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones broadcasting live ...

Pandora's box of conspiracies is wide open and it's very hard to close. Polling from the Journal of Social and Political Psychology suggests that almost 20% of Americans believe high-profile mass shootings have been staged, usually by the government. When it comes to Alex Jones himself, a former insider who worked at Infowars tells me that he thinks this could be the beginning of the end. After the comments about donations, he goes on to say: "They want us shut down". The bereaved families who were in court know all too well that what he's been doing is far from that. Never have his words sounded colder when contrasted with the emotion of grieving families.

The conspiracy theorist has said the elementary school massacre was a hoax. Plus, domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer looks at President Joe Biden's ' ...

So at the end of this, there'll be a report that is issued and that final report is expected sometime this fall. Thanks to PJ Elliot for his great work on the show and I'm back tomorrow with more of 5 Things from USA TODAY. So there's a lot that the committee has been up to and that final report should include a lot of information and be rather illuminating, I imagine. He may be able to appeal the default and he has the option of bankruptcy. Jones now faces a third trial in Texas around the end of the year. Is the DOJ waiting for the hearing to end to file charges or will nothing come from this? And had he not done that, had he participated in the process, he may be able to defend or put up a good fight. I shouldn't have to worry about what my daughter's going to go through when I tell them that it's best that they just tell the truth. - And a chihuahua has regained the title of the world's oldest living dog. But relatives of five children and three educators killed in the shooting, along with an FBI agent among the first responders to the scene, filed this latest lawsuit. This latest suit accuses Jones and his Infowars website's parent company, Free Speech Systems, of using the mass killing to build his audience and make millions of dollars. I'm Taylor Wilson and this is 5 Things you need to know Thursday, the 13th of October, 2022.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered by a Connecticut jury Wednesday to pay nearly 1 billion dollars to the relatives of eight Sandy Hook ...

This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. We are going to enforce this verdict as long as it takes. But I know that this is not the end of Alex Jones in my life. He hasn't disclosed how much money he has. He'd already been found liable by the time the trial started, so it was held to determine how much he owed the families in damages. He was nearly silent for years. FRANKIE GRAZIANO, BYLINE: Jurors heard many times during the trial a clip of Alex Jones claiming the tragedy was a government-sponsored hoax. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) She was killed that day. As Connecticut Public Radio's Frankie Graziano reports, it's the price for a decade of lies. He said it the same day 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook. That's a decision a Connecticut jury reached Wednesday after three weeks of testimony.

Conspiracy theorist has routinely claimed that he does not have the money to pay the large damages that he now owes.

Erica Lafferty, the daughter of slain Sandy hook principal Dawn Hochsprung, said that individuals have mailed rape threats to her home. In August, an economist estimated that Jones was worth $270m, reported the New York Times. The damages will be divided among 15 plaintiffs who sued Jones for defamation as apart of a Ain’t no money,” he said on Wednesday during his show. Jones [laughed and mocked ](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-must-pay-965-million-in-damages-to-families-of-8-sandy-hoo-rcna51200)the amounts that were awarded to the various individuals.

The far-right radio host owes nearly $1 billion in damages for fueling a wide-reaching conspiracy theory about the Sandy Hook massacre. He doesn't have that ...

There’s not really anywhere to turn for Jones unless his appeal against the verdict is successful, says Davidoff. This judgment is “something that will be there for the rest of his life,” says the attorney, who estimates that much of the $965 million judgment likely won’t be paid. Without that cash, Jones will be forced to hand over his personal assets, according to bankruptcy attorney Brian Davidoff, who notes that there are some state exemptions. Jones, for his part, claims that InfoWars is far from the financial position claimed by Pettingill. One of the two condos in South Lamar has Jones’ father, David Jones, listed as a beneficiary. It’s very unlikely that Jones, who runs the conspiracy-theory riddled website InfoWars, has a ten-figure fortune to spare.

WATERBURY, Conn. — The nearly $1 billion in damages a jury ordered Alex Jones and his Infowars company to pay for defaming the families of eight Sandy Hook ...

Jones and his legal team to submit a plan to the bankruptcy court in Houston for paying the award. He issued a series of orders aimed at strengthening independent oversight of Free Speech Systems, citing a “lack of transparency” and a “lack of candor” in some of the company’s financial arrangements and expenses, including $80,000 Mr. Jones said he needed to spend on “security” for his trip to Connecticut to testify in the damages trial. The lawsuit that resulted in Wednesday’s award targeted Mr. In a third potential scenario, the bankruptcy court could order the liquidation of Mr. Jones loses the appeal, the families will get the bond money. Jones’s assets and trying to recover as much of the original judgment as possible. — The nearly $1 billion in damages a jury ordered Alex Jones and his Infowars company to pay for defaming the families of eight Sandy Hook victims this week was an overwhelming victory in the families’ quest for accountability. Jones, who for years said that the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., was a government hoax and that the families were actors in the plot. The families could be entitled to Mr. There is also the $50 million awarded to two other Sandy Hook parents in a trial this past summer, and damages yet to be assessed in an upcoming third and final trial this year. It is impossible to say where things are headed so early in what could be a yearslong process, given Mr.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has vowed to fight a nearly $1 billion defamation verdict against him, but experts say neither bankruptcy nor an ...

Syracuse University College of Law professor Roy Gutterman said that Jones' "contempt for the system" will likely undermine any appeal. Jones has said he will fight the verdict on appeal and use the recent bankruptcy of his company, Free Speech Systems LLC, to avoid paying. Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy in July. “No bankruptcy judge would allow Alex Jones and his dad to stand in line in front of the plaintiffs,” Myers said. The Sandy Hook families have intervened in the case and accused Jones of withdrawing up to $62 million from Free Speech Systems while burdening it with $54 million in "concocted" debt owed to a different company owned by Jones and his parents. “We’re confident we will recover as much of the verdict as we can in the near-term, and in the long-term, this verdict isn’t going anywhere,” Chris Mattei, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said.

Now, he has been ordered to pay $965 million to families of those killed. The verdict, returned Wednesday by a jury in Connecticut in a defamation trial, joins ...

"Once a jury decides a verdict, it's never over — because there is an appeals process, and because of the ways in which the defendants may try to evade judgment," said Pandya of the University of Connecticut. "And that might just count as a win." And the company's business has picked up this year. But the Sandy Hook families have a different view. "It's hard to know exactly what happens next," said Sachin Pandya, a law professor at the University of Connecticut. If the debt to PQPR is valid, that would likely be paid before any Sandy Hook-related judgments.