A Texas court ruling means the Infowars broadcaster must pay most of the $1.4 billion he owes Sandy Hook families, regardless of whether his business survives.
  • Smoke@beehaw.orgEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    This wasn’t a huge surprise, punitive damages aren’t dischargable through bankruptcy. It’s not supposed to absolve bad actors and let them start scamming again, so if they’ve fucked around it’s more than willing to keep letting them find out.

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
    17·
    1 year ago

    Good. I hope his great great grandchildren are left cursing his name because they inherit his debt. May his name be cursed, and his face fucked by demons in hell forever.

      • Encromion@beehaw.org
        24·
        1 year ago

        That’s not how it works in America FYI. Children can’t inherit parent’s debt. They can have inheritances taken away and they can assume debt, but it doesn’t automatically go to them.

    • prorester@kbin.social
      17·
      1 year ago

      The sins of your fellow humans are not yours. He committed crimes, not his children and they shouldn’t be punished for it.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        I do hope any savings he put away from them are liquidated though. They were paid for by his victims, his kids were in innocent but that shouldn’t mean they get a free ride either. Let them go to public school. Like the students of sandy hook.

    • Storksforlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      His kids will probably grow up cursing his name anyway, inheriting debt is pretty unfair.

      However other shitty business associates who helped him spread this dangerous bullshit should be liable - as well as those who help him hide his money. These are the people to go after.

  • LordJer@beehaw.org
    12·
    1 year ago

    Good. Those poor families deserve justice. Alex did this to himself. When the families first pleaded with he could have stopped. He could have ended it there. Post an apology video. Say you were wrong. His viewership wouldn’t noticed. His whole stick constantly shifts the conspiracy to mold whatever story he needs. But no he doubled down. Even during the trial he 100% refused to go along with discovery. He stalled, stymied the courts. Finally the courts got tired and the judge granted him guilty verdict via summary judgment.

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    1 year ago

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    The judge in Alex Jones’s bankruptcy case ruled on Thursday that he will not be allowed to use his Chapter 11 filing to evade paying more than $1 billion in verdicts to families of the Sandy Hook shooting.

    The ruling by Judge Christopher Lopez in a Houston bankruptcy court means that Mr. Jones, the Infowars conspiracy broadcaster, will likely be working the rest of his life to pay his debt to the families.

    Mr. Jones spent years spreading lies that the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax aimed at confiscating Americans’ firearms.

    But he excluded $323 million in attorneys’ fees and costs awarded in the Connecticut lawsuit, ruling that the trial record did not clearly establish that those damages stemmed from “willful and malicious” actions.

    So while he was “reckless,” his lawyer Chris Davis said, “the idea that he had a willful and malicious intent is in substantial and factual dispute,” and needed to be adjudicated separately in court.

    Though the ruling largely closes off a forced outcome like that, settlement talks continue because Mr. Jones’s current assets are likely not sufficient to cover the damages in full.

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