Alex Jones reportedly concealing funds to avoid $1.5bn payout to Sandy Hook families

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(Guardian UK) Rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appears to be moving his money to friends and family in an attempt to avoid paying out nearly $1.5bn in damages to the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, a new report reveals.

Last year, Jones was ordered to pay the huge damages following his years-long claims on his digital platform Infowars that the mass shooting was a hoax staged by the government to take away guns from Americans.

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As part of a series of maneuvers to avoid paying for legal damages, Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, as well as Jones himself, declared bankruptcy last year.

“I’m officially out of money, personally,” Jones said on Infowars in December. “It’s all going to be filed. It’s all going to be public. And you will see that Alex Jones has almost no cash,” the Associated Press reports Jones saying.

However, the new investigation by the New York Times found that in addition to Jones spending $80,000 on a private jet, security and a villa during his time in Connecticut last year to testify at trial, he also appeared to have been sneaking away his money to various entities. ............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/19/alex-jones-money-concealment-sandy-hook-families-award

[GreenWave]

1. Go get him!

[HariSeldon]

2. I hope he made a criminal move here

Because I want to see him behind bars, not just penniless.

[Initech]

3. What a fucking scumbag!

[Baked Potato]

4. It's that easy? Just write a check to Uncle Albert? Nt