Sandy Hook parents sue Jones again
‘Infowars’ host accused of shielding ‘millions’ in assets
NEWTOWN — Four Sandy Hook parents who won two defamation suits against Alex Jones in Texas last year have sued him, claiming that he “transferred millions of dollars from his fortune” to shield his assets from them.
“During the defamation cases, the Jones debtors’ doomsday-prepped for these eventual judgments by diverting assets,” reads a lawsuit filed this week in 200th District Court in Austin, Texas, by the parents of two children who were slain in the Sandy Hook shooting.
“This fact is only confirmed by the jaw-dropping amount in transfers the Jones debtors made during the defamation cases. In 2021 alone, the Jones debtors transferred from Free Speech Systems tens of millions more than it cost to operate that year,” the lawsuit reads. “These transfers started just four months after the last appellate court decision was issued that allowed the defamation cases to proceed.”
Jones, the host of the internet program “Infowars,” faces the first of three jury trials to award damages later this month in Texas.
Jones, who called the 2012 shooting of 26 first graders and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School “staged,” “synthetic,” “manufactured,” “a giant hoax,” and “completely fake with actors,” lost two defamation lawsuits in Texas and a third in Connecticut.
Jones has been in the headlines for weeks because of his Connecticut case, where he skipped courtordered depositions and was sanctioned with an escalating daily fine of $25,000. At the same time, Jones offered the 15 people in the Connecticut defamation case and the four people in the Texas defamation cases $120,000 each to settle. No one took the settlement.
This week, Jones was in Bridgeport to sit for two days of depositions, giving public statements both days about his plight.
In the latest lawsuit in
Texas, the four parents and a Massachusetts man who Jones falsely accused of being the shooter in the 2018 Parkland, Fla. massacre accuse Jones of trying to “divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself.”
No attorneys are listed in the court records for Jones in the latest lawsuit. Jones could not be reached for comment late Friday at his Texas-based “Infowars” studio.
“[T]he Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act prohibits defendants from playing shell games to shield assets from their creditors,” the lawsuit reads. “And it allows creditors like the Sandy Hook families to void fraudulent transfers that defendants like Alex Jones make to their insiders.”