Alex Jones recordsdata for chapter after Kanye West interview

Infowars host Alex Jones filed for private chapter safety on Friday on the heels of a Connecticut jury and decide ordering him to pay $1.44 billion in damages to kin of the Sandy Hook Elementary college taking pictures bloodbath victims, a brand new court docket submitting exhibits.

An legal professional for Sandy Hook households later advised CNBC that Jones’s transfer won’t protect his belongings from the authorized damages imposed on him for making false claims that the taking pictures that killed 20 first-graders and 6 adults was a hoax.

Jones filed a voluntary petition below Chapter 11 in U.S. Chapter Courtroom for the Southern District of Texas, court docket information present.

In that submitting, the infamous conspiracy theorist estimates his liabilities to be between $1 billion and $10 billion, in opposition to belongings of between $1 million and $10 million.

He additionally estimates he has between 50 and 99 collectors.

The collectors recognized by title within the chapter submitting embrace dad and mom of youngsters murdered on Dec. 14, 2012, on the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary college, who had sued him efficiently for defamation, in addition to an FBI agent who responded to the scene of the bloodbath.

The biggest unsecured creditor within the submitting was Robbie Parker, whose 6-year-old daughter Emilie was killed that day. Parker, who was awarded $120 million in damages from Jones, was accused with others by Jones of being “disaster actors” who participated in a conspiracy to stage the taking pictures.

An legal professional for the Sandy Hook households advised CNBC in an e-mail, “Like each different cowardly transfer Alex Jones has made, this chapter won’t work.”

“The chapter system doesn’t defend anybody who engages in intentional and egregious assaults on others, as Mr. Jones did,” mentioned Chris Mattei, a lawyer with the agency Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder.

“The American judicial system will maintain Alex Jones accountable, and we are going to by no means cease working to implement the jury’s verdict,” Mattei mentioned.

A Connecticut jury in October ordered Jones to pay practically $1 billion in damages to Sandy Hook kin. The decide in that case added $473 million in punitive damages to that invoice the next month.

Jones’ firm, Free Speech Techniques Inc., filed for chapter safety in July. That submitting got here weeks earlier than one other civil jury in Texas awarded damages of $50 million from Jones and his firm to the mom of a kid murdered at Sandy Hook.

Family of Sandy Hook victims have mentioned the harassment they obtained on the heels of the taking pictures by individuals who believed the bloodbath was a hoax has continued till this yr.

On Thursday, Jones carried out an interview with Ye, the rapper previously often known as Kanye West. Throughout that Infowars seems, Ye made a sequence of antisemitic feedback, praised Nazi chief Adolf Hitler and talked about his current dinner with former President Donald Trump and white supremacist Nick Fuentes.