The filing said that Free Speech Systems had made $13.1 million in gross profit in 2021 and $9.3 million in gross profit in the first five months of 2022.īut the document indicated that Free Speech Systems had $14.3 million in total liabilities and equity as of May 31, 2022.Įarlier this week, the lawyer for the two Sandy Hook families suing Jones in Texas, Mark Bankston, asked the jury to award his clients $150 million in damages. The bankruptcy filing submitted into court on Friday sheds enormous light on Jones’ opaque business. Jones accountable in a Connecticut court. “These families have an endless well of patience and remain determined to hold Mr. Jones has once again fled like a coward to bankruptcy court in a transparent attempt to delay facing the families that he has spent years hurting,” Mattei said. “Just two days before jury selection is due to begin in Connecticut, Mr. Christopher Mattei, an attorney representing some of the Sandy Hook families in Connecticut, issued a scathing statement to CNN about Jones’ move. An attorney representing the plaintiffs in Texas didn’t immediately have a comment. It’s also unclear how the move will impact the case in Connecticut. It’s unclear, however, how the move will impact matters after the jury decides on damages.
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The judge overseeing the trial said proceedings in the case will continue on Monday. Reynal said that the bankruptcy filing should not impact the trial underway. The attorney representing Jones in the Texas defamation case, Federico Andino Reynal, made the disclosure about the bankruptcy filing at the end of court proceedings on Friday. In a bizarre legal twist, Jones also filed a complaint Thursday against his own company in Connecticut, a move that could further delay proceedings in the Connecticut trial. Shortly after, the three companies exited bankruptcy protection. But the families suing Jones dropped the three smaller companies from their lawsuits so that the cases could move forward against Jones and Free Speech Systems.
Three smaller companies tied to Jones declared bankruptcy earlier this year, briefly pausing the cases in both Texas and Connecticut. In that Connecticut case, a different group of families similarly sued Jones over false claims he made about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. Jones’ decision to seek bankruptcy protection for his company, Free Speech Systems, which operates the right-wing conspiratorial outlet Infowars, also comes after he was found legally responsible in a separate defamation case in Connecticut. Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ primary company filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday, an unexpected move that comes as a trial is underway in Texas to determine how much in damages he will have to pay the families of two Sandy Hook victims who sued and won a default judgment against him.
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