Alex Jones’s outlet Infowars will be shut down and sold off, a bankruptcy court trustee said.
In an “emergency” motion filed Sunday in a Houston court, trustee Christopher Murray said he has been “planning to wind-up [Free Speech Systems’s] operations and liquidate its inventory.” He did not give a timeline for the liquidation.
According to the Associated Press, Murray asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez to halt efforts by families of the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting to collect the amount owed to them by Jones, arguing that such efforts would derail efforts to close Infowars’s parent company, Free Speech Systems. Much of the proceeds through this closure and sell-off would go to the families.
Jones owes $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments for consistently calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
