Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed for chapter in a Houston, Texas court docket on Friday.
The Chapter 11 chapter submitting comes lower than two months after a jury ordered Jones and Free Speech Systems — the mum or dad firm of his Infowars faux news web site — to pay practically $1 billion in compensatory damages to family of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass capturing victims. He was additionally ordered to pay $473 million in punitive damages in that case.
Court filings confirmed that Jones has between $1 million and $10 million of property and between $1 billion and $10 billion of liabilities.
Free Speech Systems filed for chapter in July.
A decide had quickly blocked Jones from shifting any private property in another country on the request of the plaintiffs, who claimed Jones was making an attempt to cover property to keep away from paying.
Jones’ chapter submitting comes after he misplaced a bid in a separate case in Texas to scale back the practically $50 million damages handed down by a jury earlier this yr over his false claims concerning the Sandy Hook bloodbath.
The court docket submitting listed the plaintiffs who gained verdicts in opposition to Jones, together with Robert Parker, father of six-year-old Emilie Parker, who was awarded $120 million by a Connecticut jury, and FBI agent William Aldenberg, who was among the many first legislation enforcement officers on the scene of the 2012 bloodbath, which was one of many deadliest college shootings in US historical past.
Jones claimed for years that the killing of 20 college students and 6 employees members at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut was staged with actors as a part of a authorities plot to grab Americans’ weapons. He has since acknowledged that the capturing truly occurred.
A trial was held in September and October in Connecticut, and the plaintiffs in that lawsuit all through the trial described how the lies Jones had disseminated prompted unrelenting harassment in opposition to them and compounded the emotional agony of dropping their family members.
