Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $473M More to Sandy Hook Families
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, adding to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued last month.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, adding to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued last month.
A judge added $473 million in fees to the award Mr. Jones must pay in a Connecticut case and ordered him not to move his personal assets outside the United States.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company have been ordered to pay an extra $473 million to families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.
Conspiracy peddler Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an additional $473 million to victims' families and an FBI agent for claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting was a hoax — an amount piling on top of a nearly $1 billion jury verdict in October.
There were concerns Jones was "looting" his estate and stashing money in shell companies to avoid handing it over in damage payments, according to Bloomberg.
A Connecticut judge on Thursday ordered right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay an additional $473 million in punitive damages over the lies he told about the 2012 Sandy Hook
The punitive damages imposed by a Connecticut judge Thursday add to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued against Jones and Free Speech Systems last month.
