Judge stops parents' effort to collect on $50M Alex Jones owes for saying Newtown shooting was hoax

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A federal bankruptcy judge has stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting on some of the $50 million they won in a lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

FILE - Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. A federal bankruptcy judge Thursday, June 27, stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to collect on some of the $50 million owed to them by Jones and his company for his claims that the massacre was a hoax.

Bankruptcy lawyers for Jones and his company did not immediately return messages seeking comment Thursday. Jones said on his show Thursday that although Infowars may no longer exist in two to three months, he will restart his broadcasts on another platform he'll have to build from scratch. He also said Lewis and Heslin’s efforts in Texas state court to get some of his assets were “illegal.”

The bankruptcies automatically froze efforts by the Sandy Hook families to collect on the state lawsuit awards. Lawyers for Lewis and Heslin said the dismissal of Free Speech System's case meant they could go back to the Texas state court in Austin and ask a judge to order the company to begin turning over money and other assets to Lewis and Heslin.

Relatives in the Connecticut suit had fought the dismissal of Free Speech Systems' bankruptcy, saying it would lead to a “race” between Sandy Hook families to the state courts in Texas and Connecticut to see who could get Jones' assets first. The Connecticut plaintiffs favored the trustee's motion to stop the collection efforts in Texas.

 

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