Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Another $473 Million, Assets Frozen

Conspiracy peddler Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an additional $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent for claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting was a hoax — an amount piling on top of a nearly $1 billion jury verdict in October.

Connecticut-based Judge Barbara Bellis imposed the $473 million punitive damages against the InfoWars host and his parent company Free Speech Systems. The judge also temporarily blocked Jones from transferring any assets or spending money other than for typical living expenses.

Jones repeatedly told his millions of online followers that the Sandy Hook shooting, which resulted in the death of 20 first graders and six staff members, was staged by “crisis actors” as a scapegoat to enact stricter gun control measures.

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An FBI agent, along with eight victims’ relatives, testified during a monthlong trial in October about the years of threats and harassment they received due to Jones’s denial that the shooting happened.

Jones was ordered by six jurors to pay $965 million to compensate 15 plaintiffs for defamation or infliction of emotional distress and violations of Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act, which prohibits deceptive business practices and unfair competition. In a similar August trial in Texas, he was ordered to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of another child killed in the shooting over his false claims.

Although Jones has admitted the shooting incident did occur, he rebuked his Texas and Connecticut trial as a “kangaroo court” and an unfair attack on free speech rights.

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The InfoWars host has vowed to appeal the verdicts but has contended he doesn’t have the money to pay such huge verdicts, saying he has less than $2 million to his name and calling on his audience to raise money for legal costs. However, his claims contradict testimony by a forensic economist at the Texas trial, which found Jones and his parent company have a combined net worth of around $270 million.

A third and final trial over Jones’s claims is expected to begin toward the end of this year in Texas. Like the Connecticut trial, he was found liable for damages without trials in both Texas cases for failure to turn over key records to the plaintiffs.