{"id":2282925,"date":"2024-06-24T20:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T00:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-joness-infowars-will-be-shut-down-and-sold-court-trustee-says-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T20:45:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T00:45:31","slug":"alex-joness-infowars-will-be-shut-down-and-sold-court-trustee-says-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-joness-infowars-will-be-shut-down-and-sold-court-trustee-says-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Jones\u2019s Infowars will be shut down and sold, court trustee says &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">30<\/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-joness-infowars-will-be-shut-down-and-sold-court-trustee-says-washington-examiner%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=2282925&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>Alex \u200bJones&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">media platform<\/a>, Infowars, is set to be closed and \u2063liquidated, as announced by a bankruptcy court \u2064trustee. The \u200btrustee, Christopher\u2063 Murray, filed\u200d an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-bombshell-mi-judge-grants-attorney-matt-deperno-permission-to-release-results-of-forensic-examination-on-16-dominion-voting-machines-in-antrim-co-video\/\" title=\"BREAKING BOMBSHELL: MI Judge Grants Attorney Matt DePerno Permission To RELEASE Results Of Forensic Examination On 16 Dominion Voting Machines In Antrim Co.[VIDEO]\">emergency motion<\/a> to \u200dthis effect, detailing plans to cease operations and sell off the company&#8217;s inventory.\u2063 The \u200bprocess and timelines for the liquidation were not specified in the details available.\u200c Additionally, the trustee has requested \u2064the U.S. Bankruptcy\u200b Judge, Christopher Lopez, to stop any\u2063 efforts by families of Sandy Hook victims to seize \u2062the company&#8217;s assets, though specific details on this\u200c aspect\u200b remain\u2062 incomplete in the extracted text.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alex-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Alex Jones's\">Alex Jones\u2019s<\/a> outlet Infowars will be shut down and sold off, a bankruptcy court trustee said.<\/p>\n<p>In an \u201cemergency\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecutors-file-motion-for-kyle-rittenhouse-arrest-warrant-and-higher-bond-for-alleged-bail-breach\/\" title=\"Prosecutors File Motion For Kyle Rittenhouse Arrest Warrant And Higher Bond For Alleged Bail Breach\">motion filed<\/a> Sunday in a Houston court, trustee Christopher Murray said he has been \u201cplanning to wind-up [Free Speech Systems\u2019s] operations and liquidate its inventory.\u201d He did not give a timeline for the liquidation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-e8bf9a3d11b9506abb18c285d3e7b138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"According to\">According to<\/a> the <em>Associated Press<\/em>, Murray asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez to halt efforts by families of the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting to collect the amount owed to them by Jones, arguing that such efforts would derail efforts to close Infowars\u2019s parent company, Free Speech Systems. Much of the proceeds through this closure and sell-off would go to the families.<\/p>\n<p>Jones owes $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments for consistently calling the\u00a02012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting\u00a0a hoax.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, June 14, 2024, in Houston. A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down Jones\u2019s Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones owes for repeatedly calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax. (AP Photo\/David J. Phillip, file)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe specter of a pell-mell seizure of FSS\u2019s assets, including its cash, threatens to throw the business into chaos, potentially stopping it in its tracks, to the detriment\u201d of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-senator-biden-helped-create-the-student-debt-crisis-president-biden-is-pretending-to-fix\/\" title=\"How Senator Biden Helped Create The Student Debt Crisis President Biden Is Pretending To Fix\">personal bankruptcy case<\/a>, Murray wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trustee seeks this Court\u2019s intervention to prevent a value-destructive money grab and allow an orderly process to take its course,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency motion was put forward after Judge Maya Guerra Gamble approved an effort from one of the families to force the transfer of certain assets away from FSS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, said that the families supported the motion from the trustee, adding that they were disappointed in the motion filed by one of the families, arguing that it would \u201cundercut\u201d a fair distribution of assets to all the families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is precisely the unfortunate situation that the Connecticut families hoped to avoid,\u201d Mattei said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bankruptcy court trustee announced that Alex Jones&#8217;s Infowars will cease operations and be liquidated. Trustee Christopher Murray, in a motion filed in Houston, stated plans to shut down Free Speech Systems and sell its inventory. 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