Infowars hosts personal bankruptcy Alex Jones files

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HOUSTON — Infowars host Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy protection in Texas Friday as he faces a nearly $1.5 billion court judgment over a conspiracy theory he spread about the Sandy Hook school massacre. Did.

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Jones has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Houston bankruptcy court. His filings list between $1 billion and $10 billion in debt.

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The bankruptcy filing comes as Jones faces a court order to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting for calling the massacre a hoax. It is done.

A Connecticut jury awarded the family $965 million in compensatory damages in October, after which a judge awarded an additional $473 million in punitive damages. Earlier this year, a Texas jury ordered the parents of a child killed in a shooting to pay her $49 million in damages.

Jones laughed off the award on his Infowars show, saying it cost less than $2 million to his name and he couldn’t afford to pay that much. It contradicts the testimony of a forensic economist in a Texas trial that said Speech Systems’ total net worth was as high as $270 million. Free Speech Systems is also seeking bankruptcy protection.

Documents filed in the Texas bankruptcy case of Free Speech Systems estimated that the company had total product sales of $2.5 million and operating expenses of about $740,000 from October 29 to November 25. It is Jones’ salary was listed as $20,000 every two weeks.