🐱 Infowars Files for Bankruptcy Amid Sandy Hook Lawsuits

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-18/alex-jones-s-infowars-files-for-bankruptcy-amid-sandy-hook-suits

Companies owned by far-right radio host Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy after being hit by a flurry of lawsuits.

Three entities, including his website Infowars, sought Chapter 11 protection in Southern Texas, each with estimated liabilities of as much as $10 million, according to court filings. Chapter 11 filings allow a business to keep operating while working on a turnaround plan, and pause pending civil litigation.

Jones and his companies last year were found liable in a defamation lawsuit brought by relatives of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre after Jones called the shootings a hoax. A trial in Connecticut to determine the size of the damages has yet to take place. He was also found liable in similar proceedings in Texas.
Lawyers representing Jones and his businesses have said the defamation lawsuit was strategically filed to silence their free speech on matters of public interest, according to court filings.


Judges in Connecticut and Texas issued default judgments against Jones after he failed to turn over documents including financial information. Pattis & Smith said the plaintiffs’ probe into the financial ties between Jones and his various entities is akin to a “collections action” and a “fishing expedition.”

In March, lawyers representing relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims sought an arrest order for Jones after he skipped a court-ordered deposition, citing health reasons. Jones appeared for the deposition after facing hefty fines.

The cases are InfoW LLC 22-60020, IWHealth LLC 22-60021, Prison Planet TV LLC 22-60022. U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas.

— With assistance by Max Zimmerman

 

[Coolio55]

The victims were quoted as saying "MISSION COMPLETED. SHUTTING DOWN." before decomposing into a viscous liquid and being sweeped into a nearby drain.

 

[Aidan]

Lawyers representing Jones and his businesses have said the defamation lawsuit was strategically filed to silence their free speech on matters of public interest, according to court filings.

I believe it.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Fuck you Agartha.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

What a shame. Alex Jones was the last comedy news guys who was still funny.

 

[Duke Nukem]

I don't care for Alex Jones all that much, but it's a low and rotten thing to shut him down with bullshit lawfare suits like this. At least I know where the Left stands on freedom of speech though.

What a shame. Alex Jones was the last comedy news guys who was still funny.

Not to mention he, of all people, has more credibility than anyone on TV. It's not much but I'll take it.

He may have been nuts personally but I gotta give credit where due, he did predict how fucked the world would get. Too bad he became a Donald Trump shill when he used to take the piss out of both parties, especially George W. Bush during the Iraq invasion.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

He may have been nuts personally

supersane

 

[b0x]

Not to mention he, of all people, has more credibility than anyone on TV. It's not much but I'll take it.

If he was being dropped by payment processors and infrastructure (like KF), and now he's being hit with so many lawsuits. Maybe his rhetoric was getting a little too close to the truth for the establishments liking.

 

[DiggieSmalls]

time to pedal more super male vitality.

 

[Lurker]

i don't understand, you mean I can't call dead children crisis actors and I can't harass their families?

but what about my free speech?

 

[Ruin]

This is such a bad precedent. Now if you anger the political left they can destroy your life and bankrupt you even if the lawlsuit has no merit.

Good luck everyone.

 

[Duke Nukem]

If he was being dropped by payment processors and infrastructure (like KF), and now he's being hit with so many lawsuits. Maybe his rhetoric was getting a little too close to the truth for the establishments liking.

Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Modern leftists and Mussolini are not as dissimilar as some may have you believe.

This is such a bad precedent. Now if you anger the political left they can destroy your life and bankrupt you even if the lawlsuit has no merit.

Good luck everyone.

And yet everyone else is "the notseez."

 

[northstar747]

I though ethan ralph was wanting to get in with info wars

 

[Flexo]

i don't understand, you mean I can't call dead children crisis actors and I can't harass their families?

but what about my free speech?

So how was he harassing them? Was he calling them up? Stalking their houses? Showing up on their front lawn in the early morning hours? Asking them about Facebook posts? Doing their information over a gif?

Wait, that was CNN. Did info Wars do it too? Can CNN be sued like IW now? Game on, right?

 

[CaesarCzech]

This is such a bad precedent. Now if you anger the political left they can destroy your life and bankrupt you even if the lawlsuit has no merit.

Good luck everyone.

You reap the virtues of tolerance. Destruction. You should only care about your own people.

 

[Lurker]

So how was he harassing them? Was he calling them up? Stalking their houses? Showing up on their front lawn in the early morning hours? Asking them about Facebook posts? Doing their information over a gif?

Wait, that was CNN. Did info Wars do it too? Can CNN be sued like IW now? Game on, right?

lol if you don't think that his insistence on calling those dead children crisis actors wasn't intended to cause continued grief and suffering to their families.

as if his retarded brain-dead audience wouldn't go out of their way to harass the families.

edit: who knew that muh free speech had consequences?

 

[Ruin]

lol if you don't think that his insistence on calling those dead children crisis actors wasn't intended to cause continued grief and suffering to their families.

as if his retarded brain-dead audience wouldn't go out of their way to harass the families.

I don't give two fucks about Jones he's a moron but so are you if you don't think this same tactic will be deployed again working class Americans and small business owners if they complain or dare to question the government or woke NGOs

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The victims were quoted as saying "MISSION COMPLETED. SHUTTING DOWN." before decomposing into a viscous liquid and being sweeped into a nearby drain.

I wonder if they danced like the "dancing Israelis" on 9-11?

 

[Flexo]

lol if you don't think that his insistence on calling those dead children crisis actors wasn't intended to cause continued grief and suffering to their families.

as if his retarded brain-dead audience wouldn't go out of their way to harass the families.

edit: who knew that muh free speech had consequences?

By all means arrest his audience if they're being assholes. But since you just talked bad about Alex, why can't he sue you for the grief and suffering you've caused him? If speech has consequences, you sure you can avoid them indefinitely?

 

[big ups liquid richard]

time to pedal more super male vitality.

This is why I don't feel bad. He sells snake oil for a living. Grifters get no sympathy.