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11 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

I know it gets lobbed around quite a bit, but I'm not sure it's ever been more apt - DIAF you fat fuck.

I don't know how much they'll actually squeeze out of him, but it won't be fun for him no matter what.

I know next to nothing about bankruptcy, but I’m guessing he’s going to lose everything but his home and a small amount of cash to live on. He will lose InfoWars and all of its property (tangible and intangible).  

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5 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

Yeah, any money you donate will go to "stabilizing this company."  Oh sure sure sure...

you know some things that people go to federal court for?

Wire fraud

Mail fraud

Defrauding the bankruptcy court

 

Alex Jones is at the bottom of a hole, and he's still digging as fast as he can.  He is setting the table for a slate of federal charges that -- since his conduct is LITERALLY broadcast -- he won't be able to run away from.

I hope he dies broke, alone, in prison.

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This motherfucker used a tragedy to make millions of dollars and called the parents of these murdered children "liars" and "crisis actors."

Then when those parents sued his ass, he called their laywers "ambulance chasers."

Forget his money.  This fat fuck belongs in a dungeon and every Sunday one of those fathers should get 5 minutes alone with him in shackles.  Cue Pantera.

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56 minutes ago, Captainant said:

AP says it was $965 million

Thanks for the non-NYT link.  For whatever reason I don't seem to get around the NYT's paywall these days.

I'm glad to see some comeuppance for Mr. Jones.  But its always tempered by the pictures of those poor famlies.  Guts me to think about their loss(es) and the compounding of those losses by all the shit piled on them from Mr. Jones and his followers.  

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

you know some things that people go to federal court for?

Wire fraud

Mail fraud

Defrauding the bankruptcy court

 

Alex Jones is at the bottom of a hole, and he's still digging as fast as he can.  He is setting the table for a slate of federal charges that -- since his conduct is LITERALLY broadcast -- he won't be able to run away from.

I hope he dies broke, alone, in prison.

We aren’t allowed to put people like him in a jail anymore. Something about a Banana Republic. They would riot or some shit.

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

you know some things that people go to federal court for?

Wire fraud

Mail fraud

Defrauding the bankruptcy court

 

Alex Jones is at the bottom of a hole, and he's still digging as fast as he can.  He is setting the table for a slate of federal charges that -- since his conduct is LITERALLY broadcast -- he won't be able to run away from.

I hope he dies broke, alone, in prison.

At this point, I'd wager that he ends up in prison.  He's not going to just hand over his money.  He's going to resort to more fuckery.  He's already FAFO'd on the trial side, I think he's going to do the same with the BK court/trustee and he's not going to like where the puts him at the end of the day.

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4 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

At this point, I'd wager that he ends up in prison.  He's not going to just hand over his money.  He's going to resort to more fuckery.  He's already FAFO'd on the trial side, I think he's going to do the same with the BK court/trustee and he's not going to like where the puts him at the end of the day.

Agreed. Alex is too dumb to shut his mouth. And too greedy to just take the loss and move on. The guy will keep doubling down on stupid and loud.

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17 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Did they take his passport? If not, he'll have a show on Russian state TV by the end of the month. 

. . . and he'll accidentally fall from a hotel balcony within the year.

What was the total award here in Austin? Something like $4.5M?

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Alex Jones is at the bottom of a hole, and he's still digging as fast as he can. 

There's some scene from the movie Casino (I think) where someone is continually betting and losing but they don't care because he doesn't think they will really collect the money from him.  Jones and Trump remind me of this.

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Law dawgs, help me out.

I see how the jury got there. If I’m being asked— “ok, after a first grade class got murderer this guy went on the radio and said it was all a lie and the parents were actors and got his scumbag fans to harass the families as they buried their tiny coffins. How much should he pay them?”

I would say, “shit, I don’t know, maybe a billion dollars. Can we get it out of him by tearing off strips of flesh?”

But a judge is going to knock this down some, right? Still enough to destroy InfoWars but 967 million isn’t going to stand is it? 

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There's some scene from the movie Casino (I think) where someone is continually betting and losing but they don't care because he doesn't think they will really collect the money from him.  Jones and Trump remind me of this.

Well so far, Jones and Trump have been right.
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8 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Law dawgs, help me out.

I see how the jury got there. If I’m being asked— “ok, after a first grade class got murderer this guy went on the radio and said it was all a lie and the parents were actors and got his scumbag fans to harass the families as they buried their tiny coffins. How much should he pay them?”

I would say, “shit, I don’t know, maybe a billion dollars. Can we get it out of him by tearing off strips of flesh?”

But a judge is going to knock this down some, right? Still enough to destroy InfoWars but 967 million isn’t going to stand is it? 

It's surely unprecedented, but how would you argue for a reduction? "It seems high" works in some contexts, but an intentional tort of this extreme nature with high publicity? Good luck. Would you argue that the parents' testimony about the harassment they received while grieving their slaughtered children was prejudicial or inflammatory to the jury? Would you argue that sure it was bad but not that bad? That some jurors may have had kids of their own that age and were biased in determining the egregiousness of having people make death threats to grieving parents? Intentional torts are a form of damages that aren't easily subject to calculation, you have to give some trust to a jury that if you can get all 12 (or whatever supermajority in a civil case in some states) to agree that this extraordinary number is appropriate, I'm not sure even the best lawyer could convincingly argue that the number is just too high.

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Worth noting, he put up no defense and ignored court orders. He claims that he can drag this on for many years 

side note, I find Texags fascinating on these type of topics. They’re running about 75% that he did nothing wrong and all this is about people that can’t get over hurt feelings. 1st amendment !!!

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https://www.axios.com/2022/10/22/alex-jones-seeks-new-trial?utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

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Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is seeking a new trial after a jury ordered him earlier this month to pay the families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims $965 million in damages for falsely claiming the massacre was a hoax.

Driving the news: In a motion filed Friday, Jones asked a Connecticut judge to throw out the verdict against him and his company, and to order a new trial.

He claimed Judge Barbara Bellis' pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial and that jurors were presented with "half-truths," leading to "a substantial miscarriage of justice."

What they're saying: His attorneys, Norm Pattis and Kevin Smith, wrote in the motion that the verdict is "both unjust and against the weight of the evidence." 

"Additionally, the amount of the compensatory damages award exceeds any rational relationship to the evidence offered at trial," they said.

 

 

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Jones, primarily through his website and radio show Infowars, falsely claimed for years the shooting was a "false flag" operation planned by the government using "crisis actors" to undermine gun rights, Axios' Jacob Knutson reports.

Jones admitted during a Texas trial in August that he believes the shooting was "100% real."

That trial was the first time he was held financially liable for spreading conspiracy theories about the mass shooting.

He has since been found liable in other defamation lawsuits from family members of Sandy Hook victims.

By the numbers: The nearly $1 billion October verdict comes on top of another $49.3 million in damages a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed at Sandy Hook.

Additionally, he was ordered to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages to the parents of the 6-year-old.

 

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