Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars and liquidate assets

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Bankruptcy court trustee plans to shut down conspiracy theorist's media platform

FILE - The lawyers representing the families of the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary speak to the media in Waterbury, Conn, Oct. 12, 2022. A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones owes for repeatedly calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.

Murray also asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez to put an immediate hold on the Sandy Hook families' efforts to collect the massive amount Jones owes them. Murray said those efforts would interfere with his plans to close the parent company, Free Speech Systems in Austin, Texas, and sell off its assets — with much of the proceeds going to the families.

“The Trustee seeks this Court’s intervention to prevent a value-destructive money grab and allow an orderly process to take its course,” Murray said. “This is precisely the unfortunate situation that the Connecticut families hoped to avoid,” Mattei said.

 

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Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars and liquidate assetsA U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets. Trustee Christopher Murray filed court documents in Houston on Sunday indicating those plans for the first time publicly. Murray intends to liquidate Infowars' parent company to help pay the $1.
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