The trustee overseeing Infowars host Alex Jones’ personal bankruptcy case is accusing the far-right conspiracy theorist of trying to shield more than $5 million from creditors, including relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut.
Three new lawsuits filed by the trustee on Friday alleging fraudulent asset transfers are the latest developments in Jones’ long-running bankruptcy case, which has been pending in federal court in Houston for more than two years. In financial statements filed in bankruptcy court last year, Jones listed his net worth at $8.4 million.
The Sandy Hook families won nearly $1.5 billion in judgments in 2022 in lawsuits filed in Connecticut and Texas accusing Jones of defamation and emotional distress for saying the school shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators was a hoax. Victims’ relatives testified in court about being terrorized by Jones’ supporters.
It’s already proven and decided. Not only was it proven. He’s continued to make the same claims post-judgement. Completely unrepentant.
It’s getting him to actually pay the penalties that’s turning out to be the difficult part.
He shifts assets to under his father’s name. He lies about the size of his assets. He makes side deals with external funders to outbid buyers and gift assets back to him. He’s just a bad dude.
I’m not talking about that part of it, I’m talking about the shifting of assets. He has openly talked about how he is doing that on the air.
Not just talking about it, bragging about how people shouldn’t go to the IW store, but now Alex Jones Inc or some stupid garbage.
I really think he’s trying to see how far he can go before he forced them to do something on air like he’s been edging himself for over the last decade of secretly being the thing he’s ranted about all these years.
It’s the epitome of confidently incorrect. It’s like he thinks he has found a loophole and is bragging about it.