An American bankruptcy judge on Wednesday blocked an agreement between families that demanded Alex Jones for his false statements about the massive shooting of the Sandy Hook Elementary School 2012, saying that his attempt to divide the assets of the theorist of the bankruptcy conspiracy exceeded the Authority of your court.

The decision complicates a proposed sale of the Jones Infowars platform, and could stimulate divisions between the families that demanded Jones and won almost $ 1.3 billion in cases of the Connecticut court and those who won $ 50 million in the courts of Texas. The two groups of families had proposed an agreement that would guarantee Texas families a 25% participation in future Jones payments made to Sandy Hook families, and Connecticut families take 75%.

The American bankruptcy judge Christopher López rejected the agreement at a hearing in Houston, saying that families asked him to also divide the assets of the Freedom of Expression Systems of the Infowars Matrix Company, despite the fact that the company had been fired of bankruptcy last year.

“I can’t do that,” López said. “That case is closed.”

The courts in Connecticut and Texas, where some of the families filed their demands, have ruled Jones to families by making repeated false statements that the shooting at school, which killed 20 students and six staff members in Newton, Connecticut was organized as part of a government plot to remove the weapons of the Americans.

Legal trials led Jones and bankruptcy freedom systems in 2022, and López has appointed a bankruptcy administrator to sell Jones’ assets.

López has allowed systems of freedom of expression and infowars to be sold in the continuous personal bankruptcy of Jones. But he said that he preferred a “pure sale” of the company’s capital, which is owned by Jones, instead of allowing Infowars assets to break and sell separately.

The bankruptcy administrator, Christopher Murray, had previously tried to sell Infowars to the parody news site The Ceber, through an offer backed by Connecticut’s families. López knocked down that sale in January, saying that Murray “left money on the table” to win the support of Sandy Hook families.

“We are no longer doing that, I don’t trust the process,” López said. “Go sell the heritage.”

Families ‘lawyers had said that the agreement would soften the way for the sale of Jones’ assets, including Infowars, after their previous disagreements on how to pursue Jones assets. In the past, families based in Texas focused on taking more effective in Jones, while families based in Connecticut prioritized the closure of Jones’ Infowars Company.

Chris Mattei, a lawyer for the families of Connecticut, said they are still determined to “enforce each penny against Alex Jones.”

(Dietrich Knauth report; Rod Nickel edition)

Topics Legislation