Alex Jones‘ personal assets must be liquidated to pay the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims over the conspiracy theorist’s false claims that the massacre was a hoax, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Jones, founder and host of right-wing fringe site InfoWars, had already filed for personal bankruptcy protection after juries in two separate states ordered him to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to the Sandy Hook families. Judge Christopher Lopez of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved converting Jones’ proposed bankruptcy to a liquidation. Still to be determined is whether the assets of InfoWars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, also should be liquidated.
Jones has moved to sell his Texas ranch, worth about $2.8 million, along with his gun collection and other assets, the AP reported….
