An lawyer representing Jones successful the bankruptcy lawsuit did not instantly instrumentality a connection seeking comment.
A Connecticut assemblage successful October awarded the families $965 cardinal successful compensatory damages, and a judge aboriginal tacked connected different $473 million successful punitive damages. Earlier successful the year, a Texas assemblage awarded the parents of a kid killed successful the shooting $49 cardinal successful damages.
In Connecticut, Jones besides filed a announcement Friday saying his bankruptcy filing halts each proceedings successful that case. A justice was scheduled to perceive arguments Friday greeting successful the Connecticut lawsuit connected a question by the Sandy Hook families to connect the assets of Jones and his institution to unafraid wealth for the damages awards.
The families’ question to unafraid Jones’ assets besides asks the Connecticut justice to barroom Jones from transferring oregon disposing immoderate of his assets without support of the court.
Jones has laughed astatine the awards connected his Infowars show, saying helium has little than $2 cardinal to his sanction and won’t beryllium capable to wage specified precocious amounts. The comments contradicted the grounds of a forensic economist astatine the Texas trial, who said Jones and his institution Free Speech Systems person a combined nett worthy arsenic precocious arsenic $270 million. Free Speech Systems is also seeking bankruptcy protection.
In the Texas and Connecticut cases, immoderate relatives of the 20 children and six adults killed successful the 2012 schoolhouse shooting testified that they were threatened and harassed for years by radical who believed the lies told connected Jones’ show. One genitor testified that conspiracy theorists urinated connected his 7-year-old son’s sedate and threatened to excavation up the coffin.
Erica Lafferty, the girl of slain Sandy Hook main Dawn Hochsprung, testified that people mailed rape threats to her house.
In documents filed successful Free Speech Systems’ bankruptcy lawsuit successful Texas, a fund for the institution for Oct. 29 to Nov. 25 estimated merchandise income would full $2.5 million, portion operating expenses would beryllium astir $740,000. Jones’ wage was listed astatine $20,000 each 2 weeks.
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