Re: [Karma is a Bitch!] Judge Rules Rightwing Icon Alex Jones Can't Use Bankruptcy Protection To Avoid Paying Sandy Hook Families

On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 01:29:30 -0400, "56d.1152" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 10/21/23 10:13 PM, April Cool wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>, J. Hammersmith
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Judge rules Alex Jones canít use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy
>>> Hook families
>>>   
>>>
>>> HOUSTON (AP) ó A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot
>>> use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families
>>> who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was
>>> a hoax.
>>>
>>> The decision is another significant defeat for Jones in the wake of juries in
>>> Texas and Connecticut punishing him over spreading falsehoods about the
>>> nationís deadliest school shooting. U.S. District Judge Christopher Lopez of
>>> Houston issued the ruling Thursday.
>>>
>>> Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year and more recent
>>> financial documents submitted by his attorneys put his personal net worth
>>> around $14 million. But Lopez ruled that those protections do not apply over
>>> findings of ìwillful and maliciousî conduct.
>>>   
>>>
>>> An attorney for Jones did not immediately return a message seeking comment
>>> Friday.
>>>
>>> On his Infowars website, Jones posted a video saying the judgeís ruling will
>>> have little practical effect because he is over $1 million in debt personally
>>> and has little to pay the Sandy Hook families. He also said he continues to
>>> appeal the verdicts.
>>>
>>> ìItís all academic. I donít have a million dollars,î he said. ìMy company has
>>> a few million, but thatís just to pay the bills and my product in the future.
>>> So we are literally on empty.
>> 
>> 
>> He'd just said that his company (i.e., him) had a few million dollars
>> "to pay bills."  He's lying about not having the money to pay at least
>> part of these judgments.
>
>
>   Possibly ... but "corporate money" may not be entirely HIS
>   to spend on personal issues.
>
>   Jones IS an asshole ... a particularly vicious species,
>   torturing those with dead kids for fun and glory.

And cash.  He has been caught transferring his wealth out of his name.

>   However, fair and legal is fair and legal ... even assholes
>   deserve proper legal consideration and due process. They
>   cannot offer him any LESS that if it was some Wokie group
>   spewing similar nasty idiocies. In short, he gets as much
>   slack as MSNBC/CNN. That's how it's supposed to be done.
>
>   Musk recently said that free speech means nothing unless
>   you allow people you don't like to say things you don't
>   like. I think he crystallized the concept perfectly and
>   it's a valuable reminder for our age and times.

As Republicans said about the Dixie Chicks back in the day, you have to suffer the
consequences of your actions.

>   The Israel/Hamas war has suddenly degraded Wokie, badly.
>   Those in the MSM and beyond cheering Hamas terrorism
>   have suddenly become "intolerable" - even to the
>   center 'left'. CNN has been indicted and torn a new
>   asshole by Israel. Should Israel be allowed to silence
>   and sue CNN - put them out of biz, make sure they can
>   not employ the usual personal/corporate protections ?
>
>   In short, can/should CNN get the Jones treatment in
>   a supposedly free country ???  Seems a court may have
>   set precedent ... let Israel and a lot of others GO
>   for it hmmmm ???
>
>   Assholes like Jones are a side-effect of "free speech",
>   but the side-effects are WORTH it in the big picture.

And he can pay the price.

Swill
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