The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.

The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
    2761·
    9 months ago

    Jones’ general unsecured creditors—comprised mostly of Sandy Hook families holding about $1.5 billion in defamation judgments against the famed conspiracy theorist—voted 100% in favor of a Chapter 11 plan that would methodically liquidate and redistribute his property and cash, while preserving potential legal actions against parties affiliated with Jones and his Infowars program.

    I hope he dies penniless under a bridge somewhere, like the troll he is.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      604·
      9 months ago

      Once you reach a certain level of wealthy, you literally cannot die poor. Sadly this isn’t the movie trading places. Billionaires don’t go fully broke, they’re always allowed to keep a certain level of wealth forever after

      • vortic@lemmy.world
        56·
        9 months ago

        I agree with you. Just a note, though; Alex isn’t a billionaire. Even the plaintiff’s lawyers estimated his wealth at only “as much as $270M”. It still makes me sad to realize how many people he grifted, defamed, and otherwise harmed to make that much money…

      • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        332·
        9 months ago

        Well ya super rich people designed the entire legal system in the US specifically to protect themselves from ever have to face any real consequences for their crimes. You dont have to look much further than Donald J Trump to see how thats working.

        • jaybone@lemmy.world
          10·
          9 months ago

          We never brought them to the guillotines in the US.

          So they think they can do whatever they want.

          Europe still remembers, but they are slowly forgetting too.

          Might be time for another culling.

      • BakerBagel@midwest.social
        21·
        9 months ago

        Jones definitely isn’t a billionaire. He owns a glorified YouTube Channel that sells supplements and brain pills. Hopefully he is toast.

          • villainy@lemmy.world
            5·
            9 months ago

            Funny thing is that his base really doesn’t like losers.

            Yeah but they would never blindly follow a loser. All these court cases and elections are just frauds and everyone knows that if you’ve been frauded you didn’t really lose! 100% win rate confirmed, logical consistency achieved.

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
        6·
        9 months ago

        Yup, usually an African prince trying to hide his wealth ends up giving a sack of cash to homeless, temporarily embarrassed billionaires while he’s on a date with a business mogul’s knockoff’s daughter.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      52·
      9 months ago

      The vote indicates the creditors’ preference over a competing plan submitted by Jones that would allow him to reorganize by preserving parts of his media empire and paying the group at least $5.5 million a year over 10 years.

      Lmao this part cracks me up the most. He was like “how about instead of selling all my stuff, I give you pennies on the dollar of what I owe you for a few years and we call it good?”

      • frunch@lemmy.world
        36·
        9 months ago

        He’s been dealing with some of the dumbest fucks on the planet (his viewers/listeners) for so long he thinks ridiculous shit like that works on everyone

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
        22·
        9 months ago

        Would you like $100 million now or $55 million later?

        He could have at least tripled the offer in order to get a real shot. I expect they’re invested in his fall, however.

    • WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      The only upside with Alex Jones is the spawn of the “Knowledge Fight” podcast.

      I RENOUNCE JESUS CHRIST -Alex Jones