Alex Jones files for bankruptcy protection, lists Sandy Hook families as creditors

Infowars big Alex Jones filed for idiosyncratic bankruptcy extortion connected Friday connected the heels of a Connecticut assemblage and justice ordering him to wage $1.44 cardinal successful damages to relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary schoolhouse shooting massacre victims, a caller tribunal filing shows.

An lawyer for Sandy Hook families aboriginal told CNBC that Jones's determination volition not shield his assets from the ineligible damages imposed connected him for making mendacious claims that the shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six adults was a hoax.

Jones filed a voluntary petition nether Chapter 11 successful U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, tribunal records show.

In that filing, the notorious conspiracy theorist estimates his liabilities to beryllium betwixt $1 cardinal and $10 billion, against assets of betwixt $1 cardinal and $10 million.

He besides estimates helium has betwixt 50 and 99 creditors.

The creditors identified by sanction successful the bankruptcy filing see parents of children murdered connected Dec. 14, 2012, astatine the Newtown, Connecticut, simple school, who had sued him successfully for defamation, arsenic good arsenic an FBI cause who responded to the country of the massacre.

The largest unsecured creditor successful the filing was Robbie Parker, whose 6-year-old girl Emilie was killed that day. Parker, who was awarded $120 cardinal successful damages from Jones, was accused with others by Jones of being "crisis actors" who participated successful a conspiracy to signifier the shooting.

An lawyer for the Sandy Hook families told CNBC successful an email, "Like each different cowardly determination Alex Jones has made, this bankruptcy volition not work."

"The bankruptcy strategy does not support anyone who engages successful intentional and egregious attacks connected others, arsenic Mr. Jones did," said Chris Mattei, a lawyer with the steadfast Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder.

"The American judicial strategy volition clasp Alex Jones accountable, and we volition ne'er halt moving to enforce the jury's verdict," Mattei said.

A Connecticut assemblage successful October ordered Jones to wage astir $1 billion successful damages to Sandy Hook relatives. The justice successful that lawsuit added $473 cardinal successful punitive damages to that measure the pursuing month.

Jones' company, Free Speech Systems Inc., filed for bankruptcy extortion successful July. That filing came weeks earlier different civilian assemblage successful Texas awarded damages of $50 cardinal from Jones and his institution to the parent of a kid murdered astatine Sandy Hook.

Relatives of Sandy Hook victims person said the harassment they received connected the heels of the shooting by radical who believed the massacre was a hoax has continued until this year.

On Thursday, Jones conducted an interrogation with Ye, the rapper formerly known arsenic Kanye West. During that Infowars appears, Ye made a bid of antisemitic comments, praised Nazi person Adolf Hitler and talked astir his caller dinner with erstwhile President Donald Trump and achromatic supremacist Nick Fuentes.