Judge rejects bankruptcy sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to The Onion
The judge criticized the auction process as flawed and said the outcome "left a lot of money on the table" for Sandy Hook families.
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The judge criticized the auction process as flawed and said the outcome "left a lot of money on the table" for Sandy Hook families.
Satirical publication The Onion, with the support of Sandy Hook families, purchased the bankrupt site of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Under the terms of the court-ordered sale, anyone can bid for Infowars' assets. The outcome could determine Alex Jones' broadcasting fate.
The conspiracy theorist has proposed paying the families of Sandy Hook victims a fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion which they were awarded in judgements against him.
Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist known for his fake news site InfoWars and his false denial of the Sandy Hook massacre, was permanently banned from Twitter in 2018.
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.
The Connecticut jury found Jones liable for a total of $965 million, with amounts reaching as high as $120 million for a single person.
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.
The conspiracy theorist said that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting a hoax.
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A Summit County native is trying to solve a familiar problem on Colorado's ski slopes: meeting great people on the mountain, then never skiing with them again.
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President Trump announced plans to build a new "Trump class" of battleships, part of the Pentagon's new "Golden Fleet."
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