Infuriating article about Alex Jones and bankrupcy

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/alex-jones-bankruptcy.html?unlocked_article_code=yuAUa5BzKrfjz4Yytsj_cySi52ZmCsUJtmSbsRIdEr9yvzSOWrdzID1gEfa97hOPoN8pafqa6CxENh-bcoPPyUvyR0j8A_-OP8_YiuRGujj4pLwcWkJpXYon1bK7dD-2BhdMGnCV7SSNrqf0FmtnmXWyR5b8hy2AP_2xwlgGr4qhyLu5VXo52RxtwY6kG-XymjdRYGqYAeTrUAb7BZ3xiICx5wmLWFFCVMhkmPcZ20kHFDVNAfz4mggQfnMVdsGgFw9FO_SXbm2YG0lmQ0bgms2BlMEfw6AzopX0z1efrOQ-GzZ9BgB4jlTLEvcUrCAXU3iey2pfAKL_wnH-DyekTTChJg&smid=url-share

The families now face a stark reality. It is not clear whether they will ever collect a significant portion of the assets Mr. Jones has transferred. So their ability to get anything remotely close to the jury awards is inextricably tied to Mr. Jones’s capacity to make a living as the purveyor of lies — including that the shooting was a hoax, the parents were actors and the children did not really die — that ignited years of torment and threats against them.

Lawyers for Mr. Jones said in a filing late last year that “any argument that Jones must give up his public life, or discontinue public discourse, is contrary to supporting his ability to fund a plan and pay creditors.”

Mark Bankston, the families’ Texas lawyer, does not disagree. “There’s a chance we’re going to be forced into a situation where we’re going to be checking to see how Infowars is doing every month to figure out if our clients are getting paid or not,” he said.

Earlier this month, Mr. Jones offered to pay the families and his other creditors a total of $43 million over five years as part of a bankruptcy plan, which lawyers for the families immediately dismissed as laughable and riddled with financial holes. The judge ordered Mr. Jones to fill in the gaps in his financial disclosures by the end of the month.

end of quote way, way more at link above and below. Link is gifted

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/alex-jones-bankruptcy.html?unlocked_article_code=yuAUa5BzKrfjz4Yytsj_cySi52ZmCsUJtmSbsRIdEr9yvzSOWrdzID1gEfa97hOPoN8pafqa6CxENh-bcoPPyUvyR0j8A_-OP8_YiuRGujj4pLwcWkJpXYon1bK7dD-2BhdMGnCV7SSNrqf0FmtnmXWyR5b8hy2AP_2xwlgGr4qhyLu5VXo52RxtwY6kG-XymjdRYGqYAeTrUAb7BZ3xiICx5wmLWFFCVMhkmPcZ20kHFDVNAfz4mggQfnMVdsGgFw9FO_SXbm2YG0lmQ0bgms2BlMEfw6AzopX0z1efrOQ-GzZ9BgB4jlTLEvcUrCAXU3iey2pfAKL_wnH-DyekTTChJg&smid=url-share

This is outrageous on so many levels. Remember we have people in this country who can't discharge college loans via bankruptcy and are forced to pay portions of other debts due to being too rich to use chapter 11. There really should be a criminal form of libel and Jones is the poster child of why it should exist.

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1. I don't think the goal is really to get the money

The goal is to get him off the air. If they have to check his finances every month then I am sure they will be happy to do that for the next century so that he can't ever amass another fortune or use the one he has in hiding. It's not a loss to them if that's what they have to do to make life so hard for him that he can't be the public asshole he has been any more. That is, in fact, the primary goal.

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2. the article makes clear he isn't going anywhere