Infowars has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11, as website founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is facing defamation lawsuits over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a fraud.
A bankruptcy petition in Texas on Sunday halted a civil case as the business reorganized its finances.
In its court records, Infowars said it valued assets at $ 50,000 or less and estimated liabilities at $ 1 million to $ 10 million. Creditors listed in the insolvency paper include relatives of some of the 20 children and six teachers killed in a 2012 school massacre in Connecticut.
The plaintiffs in the case stated that they had been harassed and threatened with death by Jones’ followers because of the fraudulent conspiracy that Jones was promoting. Jones has since admitted that the shooting took place. The families have already won defamation lawsuits against Jones.
“Alex Jones is simply postponing the inevitable: a public trial in which he will be held accountable for his campaign of lies aimed at making a profit against the Sandy Hook families who filed the lawsuit,” said Christopher Matthew, who represents families in Connecticut. case against Jones.
Jones’s lawyer did not return an immediate statement requesting comment on Monday.
Jones was fined $ 75,000 last month for failing to testify in a defamation case, but a judge ordered a refund last week because Jones eventually showed up.
Another recent lawsuit accuses Jones of embezzling millions of dollars in assets, but Jones’s lawyer called the allegation “ridiculous.”
Neil Heslin, whose six-year-old son Jesse Lewis was killed in a shooting at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, said he did not know immediately how bankruptcy would affect his defamation lawsuit against Jones in Texas, where a lawsuit for damages Jones has to pay the families, they will start next week.
“That’s what it is,” Heslin said. “We’ll see how far everything goes. He tried everything to avoid everything.”
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