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Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed for idiosyncratic Chapter 11 bankruptcy extortion successful a Texas tribunal connected Friday, according to tribunal documents.
In the documents, Jones estimates his assets to beryllium worthy betwixt $1 to 10 million, and his liabilities to beryllium betwixt $1 to $10 billion. The Infowars host’s superior company, Free Speech Systems, besides filed for bankruptcy extortion successful July.
Jones’ idiosyncratic filing comes aft helium lost a bid successful Texas to trim the astir $50 cardinal damages grant handed down by a assemblage earlier this twelvemonth implicit his mendacious claims astir the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
After the 2012 wide shooting, successful which 26 radical were killed, Jones baselessly repeated that the incidental was staged and that the families and archetypal responders were “crisis actors.”
While Jones initially lied repeatedly astir the 2012 shooting, helium aboriginal acknowledged that the massacre had occurred arsenic his lies spawned aggregate lawsuits. But helium failed to comply with tribunal orders during the find process of the lawsuits successful Connecticut and Texas, starring the families successful each authorities to triumph default judgments against him.
The latest Texas judgement adds to a increasing database of rulings and trials racking up costs for Jones, who besides owes $1.4 cardinal successful a abstracted Connecticut lawsuit brought by 8 families of Sandy Hook victims and a archetypal responder.
A proceedings was held successful September and October successful Connecticut, and the plaintiffs successful that suit passim the proceedings described successful poignant presumption however the lies had prompted unrelenting harassment against them and compounded the affectional agony of losing their loved ones.
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