{"id":1591561,"date":"2022-08-05T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591561"},"modified":"2022-08-05T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T22:17:53","slug":"alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-additional-45m-to-sandy-hook-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-additional-45m-to-sandy-hook-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Additional $45M to Sandy Hook Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falex-jones-ordered-to-pay-additional-45m-to-sandy-hook-family%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.foxtv.com\/m107833-mcdn.mp.lura.live\/iupl\/2D8\/690\/1280\/720\/2D8690A14490430959CF1605D1F3FD63.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\"><strong>AUSTIN, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; <\/span>The jury has handed down a second verdict in the Alex Jones defamation damages trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Infowars founder has been ordered to pay $45.2M in punitive damages in addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/news\/alex-jones-trial-pay-million-damages-sandy-hook-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than $4 million he was ordered Thursday to pay to the parents of one of the Sandy Hook shooting victims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of Jesse Lewis who died in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, had sued Jones, claiming he defamed victims\u2019 families by saying the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"title\">Alex Jones trial: Infowars host ordered to pay more than $4M in damages<\/h4>\n<p>Alex Jones has been ordered to pay more than $4 million to the parents of one of the victims of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. FOX 7 Austin&#8217;s Bridget Spencer has the details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>RELATED COVERAGE:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A judge ruled months ago in favor of Heslin and Lewis, and over the past seven days, attorneys for both the parents and Jones presented their cases to a jury tasked with deciding the amount to pay Heslin and Lewis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the attorneys for the parents told the jury Friday that the $4.1 million verdict in the first phase will not deter Alex Jones and asked the jury to render a verdict of $145,900,000 in the punitive phase.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press initially reported an incorrect damage amount. This version of the story has been corrected.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The jury has handed down a second verdict in the Alex Jones defamation damages trial.\u00a0The Infowars founder has been ordered to pay $45.2M in punitive damages in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1591623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}