Families of victims of US Sandy Hook school shooting accept settlement of Alex Jones

Families of Sandy Hook massacre victims claimed victory in Alex Jones’ bankruptcy case Friday, accepting the conspiracy theorist’s proposal to sell his assets, including InfoWars, to pay in part. the court rulings that he owes them for their lies about the 2012 US school shooting.

Jones, who filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States 17 months ago, has given up on reaching a bankruptcy agreement that would reduce the $1.5 billion it owes to the families of 20 students and six staff members who died in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown , Connecticut.

Instead, Jones decided this week to proceed with a court-supervised liquidation of his assets.

Chris Mattei, an attorney for the Sandy Hook families, said Friday that Jones’ pivot to a Chapter 7 liquidation was a moment of “significant accountability” for his repeated lies.

“Alex Jones has hurt a lot of people,” Mattei said. “Connecticut families have fought for years to hold him accountable no matter the cost and at great personal risk.”

Courts in Texas and Connecticut have ordered Jones to pay 1.5 billion dollars to the families of Sandy Hook after Jones claimed for years that the school massacres were staged and part of a government plot to confiscate Americans’ guns. Jones has since acknowledged that the shootings occurred.

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