Crime & Justice

Alex Jones Pitches Bankruptcy Plan That Would Make Him $520,000 a Year

$10K A WEEK?

Conspiracy-monger’s proposal would leave up to $10 million a year for the Sandy Hook families whose lives he did his best to ruin.

Plaintiff’s attorney Chris Mattei questions Infowars founder Alex Jones as he testifies during his Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Connecticut, Sept. 22, 2022.
Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/Pool via Reuters

Nice work if you can get it: A bankruptcy plan laid out by Alex Jones’ media company would guarantee the InfoWars host $520,000 a year—that’s $10k a week. Meanwhile, the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims whose lives he blighted would share an annual $7 million to $10 million, far short of the near-$1.5 billion they won against the conspiracy-monger in damages after his repeated assertions that the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax. Free Speech Systems, the InfoWars parent company, is appealing the various rulings against Jones, and Jones himself has filed for personal bankruptcy. The company filed its proposed reorganization as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case in Houston.

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