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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 05:34 PM Aug 2018

Alex Jones Accused of Destroying Evidence Related to Sandy Hook Lawsuits

Source: The Daily Beast



Lawyers for the families of two Sandy Hook victims have accused Alex Jones and InfoWars, the company he cofounded, of “intentionally destroying evidence relevant to the defamation cases against him” in a motion filed Friday, The New York Times reports. On his broadcast last week, Jones said he instructed staffers to delete some content from Twitter after CNN pointed out that several of his posts violated the platform’s policies. But some of the content was “considered evidence in the Sandy Hook cases,” and Jones was obligated to “preserve all relevant material,” the lawyers argue. “As pressure mounted from pending defamation lawsuits and growing public indignation, Mr. Jones chose to destroy evidence of his actual malice and defamatory conduct,” the motion reads. “Infowars deleted critical evidence at the precise moment plaintiff and his experts were attempting to marshal that evidence.” Jones is currently being sued for defamation by nine Sandy Hook families after claiming that the shooting was a hoax. He was suspended from Twitter for a week after it was revealed that some of his posts were in violation of the site’s policies. Jones has also been booted off of Facebook, Youtube, iTunes, and Spotify for his controversial podcasts, videos, and posts.

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Alex Jones Accused of Destroying Evidence Related to Sandy Hook Lawsuits (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
Lock him up..................in a rubber room. nt cstanleytech Aug 2018 #1
Can you really destroy tweets? zaj Aug 2018 #2
Juanita Jean's son is one of the attorneys in this case Gothmog Aug 2018 #3
Alex Jones is lower than dog shit on a shoe. DinahMoeHum Aug 2018 #4
Is destruction of evidence in a civil case considered a criminal offense? jmowreader Aug 2018 #5
Absolutely Haggis for Breakfast Aug 2018 #9
Yep. paleotn Aug 2018 #10
Jones learned from the best djacq Aug 2018 #6
Oh Yippie.........................he can now be charged with tampering with evidence turbinetree Aug 2018 #7
It sure looks like he is getting closer to jail mysteryowl Aug 2018 #8
I remember a conversation with my "super" Christian Republican sister in law.. mountain grammy Aug 2018 #11
He can never destroy this icaria Aug 2018 #12

Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
3. Juanita Jean's son is one of the attorneys in this case
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 05:54 PM
Aug 2018

Yeah for Mark https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alex-jones-of-infowars-destroyed-evidence-related-to-sandy-hook-suits-motion-says/ar-BBM4eTe?li=BBnb7Kz

“As pressure mounted from pending defamation lawsuits and growing public indignation, Mr. Jones chose to destroy evidence of his actual malice and defamatory conduct,” the motion filed on Friday said. “Infowars deleted critical evidence at the precise moment plaintiff and his experts were attempting to marshal that evidence.”

The suit said that it was not known how much content had been deleted, but that it included written social media materials and videos. The motion was filed on behalf of Neil Heslin, father of Jesse Lewis, a 6-year-old killed at Sandy Hook, by Mark Bankston, Kyle Farrar and William Ogden of Farrar & Ball in Houston.

Over the five years since the shooting, families of the Sandy Hook victims have been stalked, threatened and subjected to online abuse by Mr. Jones’s followers, after he spread false claims about the mass shooting, calling it “synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured,” according to court documents.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
5. Is destruction of evidence in a civil case considered a criminal offense?
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 05:59 PM
Aug 2018

And if so...you realize the day Alex Jones goes to federal prison will become a national holiday, right? It'll be called Truth Day.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
9. Absolutely
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 08:43 PM
Aug 2018

And just in case he attempts some justification, he was TOLD to retain any and all information, documentation, etc., relative to this case by the judge presiding over it.

And there are other cases proceeding against him. He mis-identified the shooter in the Parkland massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who is now suing him as well. My niece, who is 15 (well, she was 15), and all of the other students there were also the target of his lies and ugly smear campaign.

His reign of terror is O - V - E - R, and I, for one, am ecstatic.

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
7. Oh Yippie.........................he can now be charged with tampering with evidence
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 07:13 PM
Aug 2018
https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/tampering-with-evidence.html


He's screwed you might say.....................say bye bye, these parents want his neck, you might say...............good

Lock his filthy ass up.................



mountain grammy

(26,568 posts)
11. I remember a conversation with my "super" Christian Republican sister in law..
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:34 AM
Aug 2018

she was singing the praises of Bill O. and others..I said something like they should never slime the young children of the president.. she was shocked, I tell ya. "Who would do that? I would never listen to that." I said, Rush Limbaugh, and, just from the look on her face, I knew she knew. Fucking hypocrits..

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