JUDGE GRANTS SANDY HOOK FAMILIES ACCESS TO INFOWARS’ FINANCIALS

A conspiracy extremist being sued for defamation by Sandy Hook families was ordered by a judge on Friday to turn over marketing and business records from his Infowars internet program.

Alex Jones, the Texas-based talk show host, was sued in May by an FBI agent and seven families who lost loved ones in the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings, claiming he “developed, amplified and perpetuated claims that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged and the 26 families who lost loves ones that day are paid actors who faked their relatives’ deaths.”

The families’ lawsuit against Jones is separate from a similar defamation claim filed in April by three other parents of children who died in the Sandy Hook shootings.

In April, Neil Heslin, the father of slain student Jesse Lewis, and Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, the parents of slain student Noah Pozner, each sued Jones for more than $1 million in damages for claiming, among other things, the shooting was “staged,” “synthetic,” “manufactured,” “a giant hoax” and “completely fake with actors,” with “inside job written all over it.”

In response, Jones has said through his attorneys in court documents that he no longer believes that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, and he has the right to have been wrong about it.