Thursday, August 14, 2025

Judge Orders Jones' Infowars Sold to Pay Sandy Hook Families

A Texas judge has ordered Alex Jones' broadcast and merchandising business Infowars be sold to pay Sandy Hook families a token of the $1.5 billion he owes them for defamation.

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Jones has lost control of his media empire to a newly-appointed receiver who will sell it off to pay the Sandy Hook Elementary School families who sued Jones for defamation after the 2012 shootings.

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-- NPR (@npr.org) Aug 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM

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... The order, signed Tuesday by a state judge, comes one year after Infowars parent company was released from federal bankruptcy protection, allowing Sandy Hook families to go after its assets in the state courts.

The receiver "is appointed ... with authority to take possession of all the turnover property, sell the turnover property and pay the proceeds to (Sandy Hook families) to the extent required to satisfy the judgment," says an order by Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Travis County District Court.

The order represents the first breakthrough for Sandy Hook families in a marathon three-year bankruptcy process that made headlines in December when the federal judge overseeing the case threw out the sale of Infowars to a partnership between Sandy Hook families and The Onion, a satirical news organization. ...



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