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Originally posted by mjlennon:
The $4.1 million was the compensatory damages. The jury now deliberates punitive damages.

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He only thought he was bankrupt...wait til they get done with him...

He is going to get it good and hard.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
If Alex Jones had to pay out large sums each time he "lied" as you put it, he'd be bankrupt in one single day.

I do not wish to be associated with people like Alex Jones.

Amen. I have never seen anyone else so full of $#it and of himself at the same time. He fully deserves to be broke and homeless. Just my opinion.

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Originally posted by mjlennon:
The $4.1 million was the compensatory damages. The jury now deliberates punitive damages.

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He only thought he was bankrupt...wait til they get done with him...

If you look up Alex Jones and his company, you'll see the bankruptcy filings and legal maneuverings to hide or save some of it have already started.

Looks like it’s a little more than $4 million:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ale...2m-sandy-hook-victim

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Alex Jones ordered to pay $45.2M to Sandy Hook victim's family
Jones theorized that the 2012 school shooting, which left 26 dead, was a hoax

August 5, 2022 6:22pm EDT

Infowars founder Alex Jones must pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

The verdict comes a day after he was ordered to pay $4.1 million in compensatory to the student's parents earlier this week.

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Originally posted by Underdog:


He is going to get it good and hard.

To the tune of another $45.2M. Good, fuck that guy.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Those people won't see 50 million dollars from Jones. He's bankrupt now.

$50 million for telling conspiracy theories and saying the parents were liars? That's a lot of emotional damage for having a crazy man say crazy shit about you. Damn.

There's far Right and far Left, both are batshit fucking crazy.
I know who he is but never listened to him.
When you start pulling things out of your ass, whatever side you're on, you're basically pathetic IMO.

Alex Jones reminds me of Harvey Weinstine.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
$50 million for telling conspiracy theories and saying the parents were liars? That's a lot of emotional damage for having a crazy man say crazy shit about you. Damn.

From the moment it happened, everything surrounding Sandy Hook has been supercharged with emotion.

They may have come back with a judgement ten times that amount. I'm not saying a 50 million dollar judgement is reasonable, but neither is it surprising considering the emotions surrounding a score of murdered children.

It'll be capped at around 13 million I believe because Texas caps the punitive damages at twice the compensatory award plus $750,000.

And if you want to know what this whole case was about, it was about destroying Alex Jones and his platform. One of the lawyers for the Sandy Hook parents said, "I ask that with your verdict you not only take Alex Jones' platform away, you make certain he will not rebuild the platform," he added. "That is punishment. That is deterrence."

That goes beyond punishment. That is vindictive.

Alex Jones didn't even get a jury trial here because in a very rare move, the Judge declared a default judgment meaning Jones was never given a chance to defend himself.

In any case, I'm sure Jones saw this coming and did what he had to do to protect his money. Not sure if his business will survive though.

Vindictive? Your child's head is exploded like a watermelon by some kid with an AR and for year after year Jones is going on and on about how the whole thing is a hoax and that you, crying in a TV interview, are a "crisis actor?"

Fuck this piece of shit. I doubt it, but hopefully he'll learn a lesson that you can't just say fucking stupid shit over and over that genuinely hurts people and not pay a price.

And it should be. These families whose children were murdered then had their lives further destroyed by a huckster fleecing the rubes to capitalize on the tragedy.

These families were harassed, threatened and told that their dead children were just actors in a farce. The damages should be punitive and Jones should suffer as much as not more as the lives he has trampled on.

Protecting his money is illegal in most jurisdictions when the purpose is to shield the money from a judgement.

Fairly easy to tell where your sympathies lie in this case.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
It'll be capped at around 13 million I believe because Texas caps the punitive damages at twice the compensatory award plus $750,000.

And if you want to know what this whole case was about, it was about destroying Alex Jones and his platform. One of the lawyers for the Sandy Hook parents said, "I ask that with your verdict you not only take Alex Jones' platform away, you make certain he will not rebuild the platform," he added. "That is punishment. That is deterrence."

That goes beyond punishment. That is vindictive.

Alex Jones didn't even get a jury trial here because in a very rare move, the Judge declared a default judgment meaning Jones was never given a chance to defend himself.

In any case, I'm sure Jones saw this coming and did what he had to do to protect his money. Not sure if his business will survive though.

I have absolutely no sympathy for Alex Jones. What he said in regards to these Sandy Hook children and the parents was atrocious.

But it seems pretty obvious to me what happened in this case. There wasn't even a trial here. Alex Jones never even defended himself in front of a Jury. The judge simply made a default judgement. At all costs they, including the judge it seems, were looking to destroy this man and his company because they hate him. I get that most of us couldn't care less about Alex Jones, but this whole case seems , I'll just say unusual to me. I didn't think our justice system was supposed to work that way.

But no one should shed a single tear for Alex Jones. There is some wild speculation about how much the man is worth, with some saying as high as $270 million. That sounds grossly exaggerated, but who knows? Even if he is worth a quarter of that, that's some serious coin. The guy before he was deplatformed was pulling in something like tens of millions of dollars a year.

Jones has announced he will be releasing a new bourbon whiskey called "Conspiracy".

https://www.msn.com/en-us/food...4b049bbcc673d7d5c6bc

I'll let readers view without me posting the entire thing here.

I'm thinking it would leave a bad taste in my mouth.

I wonder how much revenue the Jackass earned with his slander?

Freedom of speech should not apply to lies.

NYT v Sullivan’s killed the news, when it let them lie about public figures - and SCOTUS seems to be trying to put that genie back in the bottle, to an extent.

https://www.virginiadefamation...from-public-figures/

Is a pretty useful link.

And, Jones is toast. Lying about murdered babies is going to make anyone very angry.

Admittedly, I think most of us may think more about such a liar needing a punch in the nose, and having some of his teeth loosened, than suing, but he needs to be finished.

I don't have one speck of sympathy for this gas bag. His stock in trade is outrageous claims. He does not represent me, not in any way.

The conservatives in this nation would have been better off if this guy had never opened his mouth.

Before they unleashed the hellscape of lawfare on President Trump, they law-bombed bombastic conservative talk-show host Alex Jones into oblivion. The AP ran a story yesterday headlined, “Alex Jones could lose his Infowars platform to pay for Sandy Hook conspiracy lawsuit.”
https://apnews.com/article/ale...&utm_medium=referral

In 2022, Alex filed for bankruptcy protection after being successfully sued by several relatives of victims of the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut Sandy Hook school shooting that killed 20 first graders and six teachers.

The trouble started when, right after the shooting, InfoWars initially expressed skepticism and aired contradictions and inconsistencies in the media reporting about the shooting. Some of Jones’ criticisms unfortunately turned out to be unfounded hot takes, even though some details remain unexplained. The relatives testified they were traumatized by Jones’ theories, and their feelings were hurt by peoples’ online speculations that the shooting was a false flag operation.

If not entirely novel, the legal theories used to sue Jones in multiple lawsuits were at minimum very creative. The infernal strategy of filing multiple cases in multiple jurisdictions multiplies the chance of getting a friendly judge and jury, multiplies the defendant’s costs, wrecks his ability to afford a good defense, and multiplies the collective case’s complexity, making it infinitely harder to defend, all while undermining the defendant’s right to a fair venue.

In 2022, juries awarded the plaintiffs a majestic $1.4 billion judgment in Connecticut and a littler $49 million judgment in Texas. The judgments are against both InfoWars and Jones personally. These jury verdicts instantly made history, although you’ll be forgiven for not knowing that fact.

No one in history has ever been awarded so much for harmful speech.

Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and tried to propose a plan for reorganization that would have paid the plaintiffs off over time. But the plaintiffs successfully objected to that plan, and now, according to AP, Jones wants to switch to Chapter 7 liquidation, and just give them InfoWars to try to run without him. Meanwhile, the plaintiffs have sued him again in separate, new cases, arguing he’s shifted or hidden money.

It’s tempting to conclude the lawsuits against Jones are more about shutting him up for political reasons than actually compensating the victims’ relatives for their damaged feelings over Jones repeating some widely spread conspiracy theories.

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