BREAKING: Alex Jones faces exponential fines up to $525,000 for refusing to appear in Sandy Hook massacre case.
Alex Jones will be required to pay $25,000 each day he refuses to appear in court for his defamation case filed against him by families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims
Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis denied the motion to halt the financial penalties imposed on Jones, which began Friday.Jones, the founder of right-wing conspiracy news site Infowars, claimed the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut was a hoax. The families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims have sued Jones for defamation.
‘Jones and others are sued for comments they made denying that the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 took place. For many Connecticut residents, that is reason enough to hate Jones. One suspects Judge Bellis has succumbed to that hatred,’ defense attorney Norm Pattis wrote in the state supreme court appeal.
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