InfoWars, a media outlet owned by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and two other companies owned by Jones have filed for bankruptcy. This all comes after Jones lost three defamation lawsuits to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.
Poor Alex looks mighty stressed out in that image.
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There must be a reason why Alex Jones looks as though he is having a āhemorrhoidal incidentā in the accompanying photo.
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The Justice Department and attorneys for families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting are questioning the legitimacy of attempts by right-wing talk show host Alex Jones to put several businesses in his media empire into bankruptcy just as a trial was set to open in Texas, where he faced the possibility of being ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages.
Both the families and a Justice Department office asked a federal bankruptcy judge in Houston to put off an initial, emergency hearing scheduled for Friday morning to address Chapter 11 filings earlier this week by three entities linked to Jonesā Infowars brand: InfoW, IW Health and Prison Planet TV.
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The Justice Departmentās Office of the U.S. Trustee told Judge Christopher Lopez the structure of Jonesā filing āmay demonstrate these cases are an abuse of the bankruptcy system.ā The government submission questioned why Jones had not filed for personal bankruptcy and why another business he controls, Free Speech Systems, was not included in the filings earlier this week.
āWhy didnāt Alex Jones or FSS file for bankruptcy relief when Debtors did? They are both defendants in the same litigation as Debtors, and all of them have been found liable in those cases,ā attorneys Jayson Ruff and Ha Nguyen wrote for the Justice Department unit. āIt appears that Jones intends to leverage the bankruptcy filings of his holding companies to extend the automatic stays of pending litigation against Debtors to him and FSS, while he maintains full control of FSS and its assets going forward. Thus, this Motion ā¦ seems to be just the first step for Debtors to carry out Jonesās and FSSās scheme of avoiding the burdens of bankruptcy while reaping its benefits.ā