A bankruptcy judge has ruled in favor of an appeal by Alex Jones and prevented a bid by the parent company of The Onion to buy the beleaguered website Infowars and the rest of Jones’ media empire. The late ruling on Tuesday by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez agreed that the auction process was fraught with problems after a two-day hearing featuring The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron. Lopez claimed Global Tetrahedron, which offered $1.75 million in cash, still claimed the win Nov. 14 despite a $3.5 million bid by First United American Companies, a company that promotes Jones’ nutritional supplements. “I don’t think it’s enough money,” Lopez said in the Houston court, according to NBC News. “I’m going to not approve the sale.” The future of the empire remains unclear, though Lopez handed control over next steps to the same trustee who oversaw the first auction, Christopher Murray. “Only two people showed up to bid and… one was just better than the other,” Murray testified, according to the Associated Press, referring to The Onion. Though The Onion’s cash bid was smaller, it also included an agreement from Sandy Hook families to waive the $750,000 they would have received from the sale.
