Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

    • Meowoem
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      1 year ago

      No but he’s got many millions in assets so take all those

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      sure but would that stop the courts taking as much as possible? that’s my question really because we all know AJ will never pay off a billion dollars, but he might be forced to pay off a few million.