{"id":1734101,"date":"2022-11-10T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T21:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734101"},"modified":"2022-11-10T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T21:32:51","slug":"alex-jones-gets-assets-frozen-now-has-to-pay-almost-1-5-billion-to-sandy-hook-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-jones-gets-assets-frozen-now-has-to-pay-almost-1-5-billion-to-sandy-hook-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Jones Gets Assets Frozen, Now Has To Pay Almost $1.5 Billion To Sandy Hook Families"},"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\">32<\/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-gets-assets-frozen-now-has-to-pay-almost-1-5-billion-to-sandy-hook-families%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=1734101&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--><p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/infowars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Infowars<\/a> founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay another $473 million to the families of children killed in the shooting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/sandy-hook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandy Hook<\/a> Elementary School, adding to the $965 million he has already been told to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Jones had asserted for years that the 2012 attack, in which the shooter murdered 26 people, including 20 children, was a hoax meant to help the federal government confiscate citizens\u2019 firearms. The conspiracy theorist must pay a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-nearly-1-billion-to-families-of-sandy-hook-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">combined<\/a> $1.44 billion to the victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe record clearly supports the plaintiffs\u2019 argument that the defendants\u2019 conduct was intentional and malicious, and certain to cause harm by virtue of their infrastructure, ability to spread content, and massive audience including the \u2018infowarriors,\u2019\u201d Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis wrote in her ruling. \u201cThe record also establishes that the defendants repeated the conduct and attacks on the plaintiffs for nearly a decade, including during the trial, wanton, malicious, and heinous conduct that caused harm to the plaintiffs. This depravity, and cruel, persistent course of conduct by the defendants establishes the highest degree of reprehensibility and blameworthiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Mattei, a lawyer representing the Sandy Hook families, celebrated the decision in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMatteiCT\/status\/1590778197834010624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> posted to social media. Jones had claimed that the parents of the slaughtered children were crisis actors. \u201cJustice requires that he pay every penny,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A separate one-page order prohibited Jones from relocating assets out of the country. \u201cWith the exception of ordinary living expenses, the defendant Alex Jones is not to transfer, encumber, dispose, or move his assets out of the United States, until further order of the court,\u201d Bellis said.<\/p>\n<p>The latest verdict also follows a ruling from a separate jury in Texas, which ordered Jones to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages and $45.2 million in punitive damages, a figure that may be reduced due to state laws capping the size of the penalty. Families of the Sandy Hook victims began taking legal action against Jones, as well as Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Infowars, four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in the Connecticut lawsuit argued that the sanction was derived from the number of impressions Jones had garnered online for his claims. \u201cYou may say that is astronomical. It is,\u201d Mattei told jurors. \u201cIt\u2019s exactly what Alex Jones set himself up to do. That\u2019s what he built. He built a lie machine that could push this stuff out. You reap what you sow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The families asked Bellis last month to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sandy-hook-families-demand-new-unimaginable-sum-of-money-from-alex-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increase<\/a> the $965 million ruling to $2.75 trillion, since Jones allegedly broke a Connecticut law banning the sale of goods through false statements. The figure was calculated by multiplying the $5,000 maximum penalty under state law by 550 million social media views Jones received in the three years following the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Infowars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sandy-hook-families-demand-alex-jones-surrender-media-company-control-accuse-him-of-funneling-assets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed for bankruptcy<\/a> earlier this year amid the legal quagmire. Another lawsuit claimed Jones had been hiding money, citing his $62 million in withdrawals from the company over the past three years. According to bankruptcy documents, nine Sandy Hook families requested for a trustee to control Free Speech Systems, which owes $54 million to PQPR Holdings, a firm with ties to Jones and his parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay another $473 million to the families of children killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, adding to the $965 million he has already been told to pay. 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