A US bankruptcy judge on Wednesday attempts to break a family settlement that sued Alex Jones over his false allegations about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, and split the assets of a bankrupt conspiracy theorist He said the attempt exceeded the authority of his court.
The decision complicates the proposed sale of Jones' Infowars platform, sue Jones, between the family that won around $1.3 billion in Connecticut trials and the family that won $50 million in Texas courts. may promote division of the
Two groups of families proposed a settlement that guarantees Texas families 25% of Jones' future payments to Sandy Hook's families, with Connecticut families accounting for 75%.
U.S. bankruptcy judge Christopher Lopez refused to settle at a hearing in Houston, and despite the fact that the company was rejected from bankruptcy last year, the family has given him the assets of Infowars' parent company, the Free Speech System. He said he is asking for a split.
“We can't do that,” Lopez said. “The case is closed.”
Courts in Connecticut and Texas have filed a lawsuit, and Jones has repeatedly made false claims at a school where 20 students and six staff members were killed in Newton, Connecticut. He decided that he denied his family. A government conspiracy to take guns from Americans.
By legal decision, Jones and the free speech system went bankrupt in 2022, and Lopez appointed a bankruptcy trustee to sell Jones' assets.
Lopez has allowed Jones to sell free speech systems and infowar in his continued personal bankruptcy. However, he said he preferred “pure sales” of the fairness of the company owned by Jones, rather than allowing Infowars assets to be split and sold separately.
Bankruptcy councillor Christopher Murray had previously tried to sell intruders to the parody news site, Onion, through a bid supported by Connecticut families. Lopez shot down the sale in January, and Murray said he “leaved money at the table” to gain support for the Sandy Hook family.
“We're not doing that anymore, I don't trust the process,” Lopez said. “I'm going to sell my equity.”
The family's attorneys said the contract would smooth the path to selling Jones' assets, including Info, after previous disagreements about how to pursue Jones' assets. In the past, Texas-based families focused on getting more cash from Jones, while Connecticut-based families prioritized the closure of Jones' Inforers Company.
Chris Mattey, a Connecticut family lawyer, said he is determined to “enforce every penny of his judgment against Alex Jones.”
