fwiw, here's the coverage in the local newspaper...
Judge agrees to sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to pay Sandy Hook families a token of what they're owed
www.newstimes.com
... The federal judge overseeing the two-year battle pitting a bankrupted Alex Jones against families of Sandy Hook shooting victims Jones defamed has approved the sale of Jones' Infowars broadcasting and merchandizing business.
"I will sign (the sale order)," Judge Christopher Lopez said Tuesday during an afternoon hearing in his Houston courtroom.
The judge's decision means the days of the Alex Jones Show and the conspiracy news merchandizing platform Infowars is down to a few months left on the air.
The judge's decision also represents a victory for Sandy Hook families who won 2022 defamation verdicts against Jones in Texas and Connecticut totaling $1.5 billion. The families supported the plan to sell off Infowars to the highest bidder.
"The Connecticut families fully support the trustee's efforts to sell Jones' assets " an essential and long-awaited step in providing distributions to the Sandy Hook families after more than a decade of abuse by Jones," attorney Ryan Chapple wrote to the judge on Monday. ...
The next step is a two-phase wind down of Jones' business, according to Christopher Murray, a U.S. trustee who is in charge of bringing Jones' business bankruptcy and Jones' personal bankruptcy to a close.
First, "multiple parties" interested in a piece of the Jones business will bid on everything ranging from "the trademarks, domain names, copyrighted material, social media accounts, and any other transferable intellectual property rights" to broadcast studio technology and video-production equipment.
Next, once the sale is complete "the trustee would terminate operations, dismiss the employees and contractors, and take appropriate steps to dissolve and wind down (Infowars)," Murray wrote to the judge in late August.
The sell-off of Infowars is expected to happen "within 60 days of entry of an order approving this process," Murray said. The shutdown of the business "would likely conclude another 30-to-45 days after that.," Murray said ...
