ALEX JONES’ INFOWARS FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY IN US COURT

Mon 18 April 2022:

In the face of many defamation lawsuits, the far-right website InfoWars filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on Sunday.

All civil litigation is placed on hold during Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, allowing companies to formulate turnaround plans while remaining functioning.

In a trio of cases filed last year, Alex Jones, the founder of InfoWars, was found liable for damages after falsely claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a fake.

Jones stated that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and six school employees were killed, was staged by gun-control proponents and the mainstream media.

Sandy Hook families in late March rejected Jones’ offer to settle their defamation lawsuit and reopened the case. Jones had offered to pay $120,000 to each of the 13 plaintiffs to settle the case.

Each of the plaintiffs turned down the settlement offer in court documents, saying, “The so-called offer is a transparent and desperate attempt by Alex Jones to escape a public reckoning under oath with his deceitful, profit-driven campaign against the plaintiffs and the memory of their loved ones lost at Sandy Hook.”

InfoWars stated its estimated assets in the range of $0-$50,000 and estimated liabilities in the range of $1 million to $10 million in court records filed on Sunday.

Jones, a vocal admirer of former US President Donald Trump, was previously subpoenaed by a House of Representatives committee investigating the Trump supporters’ January 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

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