Infowars host Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy
Jones said on his show Infowars that he is "officially out of money."
Jones said on his show Infowars that he is "officially out of money."
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company have been ordered to pay an extra $473 million to families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.
A Connecticut jury ruled that right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay nearly $1 billion in damages to families of Sandy Hook shooting victims. CBS News correspondent Nikki Battiste joins "CBS News Mornings" to share reactions to the case.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook families for calling the 2012 school shooting a hoax. Nikki Battiste reports.
A jury in Connecticut ordered Infowars host Alex Jones to pay $965 million in damages to families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and an FBI agent for promoting lies that the shooting was a hoax. Attorneys and family members spoke out after the verdict. Watch their remarks.
The Connecticut jury found Jones liable for a total of $965 million, with amounts reaching as high as $120 million for a single person.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified at his defamation trial in Connecticut as he tries to limit the damages he must pay for claiming the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. Nikki Battiste reports.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has taken the stand at his trial in Connecticut to try to limit the damages he must pay for calling the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.
Infowars host Alex Jones took the stand Thursday in his defamation trial in Connecticut over falsely calling the Sandy Hook massacre a "hoax." CBS News correspondent Nikki Battiste discussed what happened in court.
Day two of Alex Jones' second defamation trial for calling the Sandy Hook mass shooting a hoax is underway. His latest trial comes after a Texas jury ordered the Infowars host to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of one of the victims last month. Kaysia Earley, the founding attorney of and a criminal defense and civil rights attorney for Earley Law Firm, joined CBS News to discuss the trial.
A Connecticut jury has begun hearing arguments about how much money conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax.
Jones is set to go on trial a second time for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
Far-right radio show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the family of a Sandy Hook massacre victim. Jones still faces two more defamation trials brought by other Sandy Hook victims. Michael George has more.
A jury in Texas has ordered the right-wing conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones to pay over $4 million in compensatory damages to the family of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting. They sued him for defamation and testified that his false claims that the shooting was a hoax made their lives "a living hell." CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson joins Robert Costa with more on the breaking news.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is defending his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax. The parents of one of the 6-year-old victims is suing him, claiming his lies made their life a "living hell." Janet Shamlian reports.
Courts in Connecticut and Texas are holding trials to determine how much radio host Alex Jones owes the families people who were killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, who won defamation cases against him. His company filed for bankruptcy Friday. Vinoo Varghese, a Wall Street criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor who is on the teaching faculty at Harvard Law, joins "CBS News Mornings" to explain how both sides are approaching the cases.
The trial seeks to force Jones to pay $150 million or more to the family of one of the children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School attack.
Russian troops have stepped up their assault on eastern Ukraine. European officials fear the key port city of Mariupol could fall in days. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on state lawmakers to strip Disney World of its status letting it operate as an independent government around its theme parks, as their feud over the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law heats up. And Major League Baseball may implement a pitch clock after a new report showed it shaved 20 minutes off minor league games.
Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine is underway. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vows that his country’s forces will fight to defend the area. Alex Jones's Infowars has filed for bankruptcy after numerous defamation suits from families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. And a community in Florida’s Sarasota County had an unusual Easter Sunday visitor – a 10-foot alligator.
Jones was found liable in at least two defamation suits over his assertions that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
Fines were mounting for his failing to appear. Damages are being determined after a judge ruled he defamed families for claiming the massacre never happened.
They sued him for claiming the shooting never happened. He offered to pay $120,000 per plaintiff. A judge found him liable for damages in November.
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The immediate impact of the incorporation will see Josh Gibson, one of the baseball's greatest players, take multiple records from the likes of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.
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Lawyers from both sides presented their final cases before the jury in former President Donald Trump's "hush money" trial in New York.
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Lawyers from both sides presented their final cases before the jury in former President Donald Trump's "hush money" trial in New York.
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