NEW YORK — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a U.S.
judge to convert his bankruptcy into a Chapter 7 liquidation, giving up on an effort to settle massive legal judgments related to his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Jones believes that “there is no reasonable prospect of a successful reorganization” of his debts, most of which stem from $1.5 billion awarded in defamation lawsuits, his attorneys said in a court filing late on Thursday.
” A spokesman for the Sandy Hook families declined to comment on Thursday. Jones claimed for years that the Sandy Hook killings were staged with actors as part of a government plot to seize Americans’ guns. Jones has since acknowledged that the shooting occurred. The Sandy Hook families said that Jones’ conspiracy theories caused grieving parents to endure years of threats and harassment, while Jones profited by driving traffic and sales on his Infowars website.
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