The move – described as an “inevitable delay” by a lawyer representing families – puts civil disputes on hold as the company reorganizes its finances. Jones claimed that the attack, which resulted in the deaths of 20 children and six school staff, was carried out by actors working for gun control supporters. Read more: Alex Jones says the psychosis made him say Sandy Hook was a joke Several parents later sued Jones and Infowars, as well as its parent company, for defamation in both Texas and Connecticut. Image: Monument outside the school after the shooting in 2012 Last October, Jones was found liable to compensation in Texas in three defamation lawsuits. In new Texas court filing Sunday, Infowars said it had estimated assets of $ 50,000 or less and estimated liabilities of between $ 1 million and $ 10 million (8 768,000 – 7. 7,684,450). Bankruptcy creditors include relatives of some of the 20 children and six teachers killed in the 2012 Connecticut school massacre. The plaintiffs in this case said that they have been harassed and threatened with death by Jones’s supporters because of the prank conspiracy promoted by Jones. “Alex Jones is simply delaying the inevitable: a public lawsuit in which he will be held accountable for his false campaign against the Sandy Hook families who have filed this lawsuit,” said Christopher Mattei, who represents the families in Connecticut. lawsuit against Jones. Neil Heslin, whose six-year-old son Jesse Lewis died in a Newtown school shooting, said he did not immediately know how bankruptcy would affect his defamation suit, but said: “We’ll see where it all goes. everything to avoid everything “.
