The far-right conspiracy theorist used InfoWars to push the false claim that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.
massacre victims, who say they were harassed by Jones’ followers who believed his lies that the 2012 school shooting was a hoax.
Jones asked a judge to convert his bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 liquidation, relinquishing his desperate effort to save InfoWars, the conspiracy platform from which he regularly spewed baseless claims. Last weekend, hethat he was being “targeted for abuse” by “Deep State” actors who wanted to shut down his show, and begged listeners to buy his dietary supplements to support him.
Jones’ attorneys affirmed in a Thursday court filing that “there is no reasonable prospect of a successful reorganization” of his debts. Avi Moshenberg, a lawyer representing the Sandy Hook families, told CNN that the liquidation move ultimately “means ownership in Free Speech Systems is going to get sold,” ending Jones’ hold over a conspiracy theory empire he’s held for decades.
Jones was ordered to pay $1.5 billion to the families of Sandy Hook victims in 2022 by courts in Texas and Connecticut, who found that he caused them emotional distress by claiming the 2012 massacre was a hoax intended by the government to seize Americans’ guns.
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