Company tied to Alex Jones doubles offer to buy Infowars
Satirical news site The Onion won the outlet in a bankruptcy auction that was later voided by a federal judge in Texas.
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Satirical news site The Onion won the outlet in a bankruptcy auction that was later voided by a federal judge in Texas.
The judge criticized the auction process as flawed and said the outcome "left a lot of money on the table" for Sandy Hook families.
Under the terms of the court-ordered sale, anyone can bid for Infowars' assets. The outcome could determine Alex Jones' broadcasting fate.
Lawyers for several families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting are criticizing Alex Jones' personal spending as they seek nearly $1.5 billion they won in lawsuits against the Infowars host.
A lawyer for Alex Jones has been suspended from practicing law in Connecticut for six months for improperly giving Jones' other attorneys in Texas confidential documents.
Cases can move forward against Alex Jones regarding the nearly $1.5 billion he's ordered to pay families of Sandy Hook victims over his conspiracy theories about the 2012 school massacre.
Infowars host Alex Jones and his company were ordered by a judge Thursday to pay an extra $473 million for promoting false conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Samuel Christopher Montoya faces a maximum sentence of six months of imprisonment after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
The verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host.
Jones is set to go on trial a second time for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
The Committee discussed North Texas Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, who was charged with seditious conspiracy.
A federal judge in Texas on Friday dismissed the bankruptcy protection case of Infowars and two other companies controlled by Alex Jones.
