A Texas bankruptcy court judge on Friday brought InfoWars back from the brink of death with a stunning ruling that convicted the conspiracy’s ringleader. alex jones Naturally, Jones tried to use it to make more money. This time, Jones is promoting a supplement company owned by his father.
Judge Christopher M. Lopez issued a split ruling last week, saying Jones could follow through on a plan requested by his lawyers and sell most of his assets to pay about $1.5 billion to the families of children and staff killed at Sandy Hook, as he repeatedly called the mass shooting a “hoax.”
Although Jones lost by default In defamation cases filed by Sandy Hook families in both Connecticut and Texas, the families have yet to receive a dime of the money owed them; Friday’s hearing was part of a long-awaited day of reckoning for the man they said was the biggest purveyor of lies about their dead children and of hate, threats and harassment toward their families.
But the judge rejected the bankruptcy plan, which would also have ended Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars, the 25-year-old media empire that made Jones the biggest face of conspiracy in America. The network will survive for now, though it’s unclear how long. Jones responded to the crisis in his usual way: by selling supplements, though this time with a peculiar twist.
As the bankruptcy proceedings dragged on, Jones effectively used his singular talent, urging his viewers to send money to an organization that he did not directly own, and thus was not accountable to the Sandy Hook families and their other creditors.
In recent weeks Jones has been on the air promoting a new supplement site, Dr. Jones Naturals. He says it is owned by his father, David Jones, a dentist. Alex Jones is urging people to spend their money there instead of or in addition to InfoWars’ in-house store. “My father is a sponsor, and he has a warehouse that he does not control that is full of products ready to ship to you,” Jones said on-air last week. A representative from Free Speech Systems also testified in court that InfoWars stopped ordering supplements for its in-house store several weeks ago, because it expected the store would soon close.
The products offered by Dr. Jones’ Naturals are not much different from those sold by Infowars; it also has the usual bouquet of colloidal silver products, An old false cure In the world of natural health, there’s something oxymoronically called Rocket Rest, a product called Top Brain, and, for the perfectionist, a set of products called Patriot Pack. There’s also a pack of “Super Silver Lozenges”, where the product picture is not included. Indicates a 2022 completion date.
“This is clear fraud in bankruptcy court,” Chris Mattei, an attorney for the Connecticut families, told Wired, referring to Jones directing people to his father’s supplement website on-air. “He shouldn’t be moving assets around.”
