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Reuters reports: Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has vowed to fight a nearly $1 billion defamation verdict against him, but experts say neither bankruptcy nor an appeal of a Connecticut jury’s findings on Wednesday are likely to salvage his personal fortune and media empire. Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy in July. The Sandy Hook families have intervened in the …

“They want to shut us down, so I’m in Chapter 11, Subchapter V bankruptcy, which is not a liquidation. It’s reorganization. “So, as long as I want to work, basically, for free, I mean, instead of making $2 million a year and a half million dollars a year under it, I’m happy to do that. “InfoWars will continue on because …

Mediaite reports: InfoWars founder Alex Jones reacted on Wednesday to the $965 million verdict against him in the defamation suit. “Ain’t no money,” said Jones on his show as the verdict was being read. Jones claimed he is in bankruptcy, before asking viewers to donate to save his company. Jones grossly managed to make light of the devastating verdict with …

CNN reports: Plaintiffs in the trial included family members of eight school students and employees, in addition to one FBI agent who responded to the scene. Notably, Jones is not present in the courtroom today. Three cases were all condensed into the single trial. While the families did not seek a specific dollar figure in the trial, an attorney for …

Mediaite reports: InfoWars founder Alex Jones skipped out on testifying at his own defamation trial on Wednesday, saying through his lawyer that he is “boycotting” the proceedings. Jones was expected to testify on Wednesday in a Connecticut defamation trial stemming from his comments suggesting the Sandy Hook school shooting never happened. Norm Pattis, Jones’ attorney, announced on Wednesday in court …

The New York Times reports: A federal bankruptcy judge in Houston ordered new personnel to oversee the bankruptcy of Alex Jones’s Infowars late on Tuesday, citing an ongoing lack of transparency, including over Mr. Jones’s lavish personal spending. Judge Christopher Lopez dismissed Mr. Jones’s attorney and chief restructuring officer in the bankruptcy of Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company, and …

Publishers Weekly reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s new book, billed as an analysis of “the global elite’s international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet,” sold more than 30K copies in its first week despite Jones being convicted last month in the defamation lawsuit brought against him by parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims. At the …

Media Matters has the transcript: ALEX JONES (GUEST): Well now what they do is they do a default. So they sue you in one of these key jurisdictions that they control, if you’re dumb enough to live in one of them — still, they’ll just do it in DC and make you go there. They’ll sue you in the jurisdiction …

Law & Crime reports: Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones stands trial yet again today in civil court in a defamation case brought by families of the Sandy Hook mass shooting victims. This time, the trial is in Connecticut. Plaintiffs are eight families and an FBI agent. Jones already lost the case by default. Jurors will determine the money to be awarded. …

The New York Times reports: Sandy Hook victims’ families asked a federal bankruptcy court on Thursday to order the Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones to relinquish control over his company, saying he has “systematically transferred millions of dollars” to himself and his relatives while claiming to be broke. In a filing in the bankruptcy court in Houston, the families of …

The Independent reports: Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones allegedly sent an “intimate photo” of his wife to Donald Trump ally Roger Stone, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents has said. Mark Bankston, the lawyer representing the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim in their defamation lawsuit against Mr Jones, had made the startling revelation that he …

CNN reports: Approximately two years’ worth of text messages sent and received by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have been turned over to the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday. The messages were handed over to the committee by Mark Bankston, the attorney who represented two Sandy Hook …

The Daily Beast reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones went on a rant about Sandy Hook family lawyers accidentally obtaining a copy of his phone from his own legal team, insisting they now have a “naked” photo of his wife and not much else. “It’s six months of my phone, late 2019, early 2020,” he said on his broadcast Saturday …

CNN reports: A Texas jury has decided to penalize Alex Jones with $45.2 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis. The award, which the judge could reduce, came one day after the jury settled on $4.1 million in compensatory damages. The jurors began deliberating around 12:30 pm CT on …

The New York Times reports: The lawyer for plaintiffs who are suing the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said Thursday that he plans to turn over two years of text messages from Mr. Jones’s phone to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The lawyer, Mark Bankston, who represents Sandy Hook parents suing Mr. Jones in defamation …

CNN reports: Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more than $4 million in compensatory damages, a jury decided Thursday, capping a stunning and dramatic case that showcased for the public the real-world harm inflicted by viral conspiracy theories. The award from the jury was far less …

Law & Crime reports: After the bombshell revelations that Alex Jones’s legal team inadvertently disclosed years of his phone data, an attorney for a Sandy Hook victim’s parents disclosed that “various” law enforcement agents want to scrutinize the information. On Thursday, Jones’s lawyer Andino Reynal tried to mitigate the fallout by asking Travis County Judge Maya Guerra Gamble to order …

The right wing Daily Wire reports: The defamation trial against Infowars founder Alex Jones took a big turn on Wednesday when the attorneys representing the parents of a Sandy Hook victim said that that Jones’ attorney accidentally sent them the conspiracy theorist’s text messages. Mark Bankston, who is representing the parents of a Sandy Hook victim who are suing Jones …

Media Matters has the transcript: They had to default me in all four cases, saying I turned over nothing, while they sit there and show the jury, they’re deciding how guilty I am. Not if I’m guilty or innocent, showing the juries all these emails and all these videos that we turned over to them while the judge tells them …

The Insider reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones railed against the mother and father of one of the children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre on his InfoWars broadcast on Tuesday as the dad testified against him at his defamation damages trial. Jones appeared on InfoWars while the trial was ongoing and Sandy Hook father Neil Heslin was testifying against …