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.

  • @merthyr1831
    13•1 year ago

    So how does paying these fines work? Does he give a percentage of his earnings or what?

    • @ChefTyler1980
      11•1 year ago

      Creative accounting will show him making $0/year until his death

    • @[email protected]
      7•1 year ago

      I think it’s extremely unlikely he’ll earn a billion dollars before he drops dead of an aneurysm in the middle of a far right screed.

      It’s a thousand million dollars and it’s been years since they needed him to funnel unmedicated schizophrenics into political extremism.

      • @merthyr1831
        1•1 year ago

        Yeah I know the number is kinda for show. It’s more to keep him laying indefinitely. Only question is how he even pays the fraction he’ll be able to pay in his lifetime.

    • @Fades
      5•1 year ago

      Forced selling off of assets?

      • @bob_wileyEnglish
        1•1 year ago

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        • @merthyr1831
          1•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.