I'm choosing to wait to celebrate until it is actually, finally shut down.
it's been quite the journey watching that guy over the decades. I met him twice. once in passing. but 2nd time (~1997) he overheard me at a pub mocking "black helicopter" theories and came over to lecture us for 5 minutes
far from it. at the time, I was at my peak of engaging in political debates (in fact, that was part of the reason we met at the pub every Wednesday).
rather, it was clear that Alex was such a frothy loon that we all just intuited we should let him get it out. I just smirked and sipped my Guinness.
oh yeah. even earlier. first time I met him was maybe 1993-94, in passing at the local Public Access studios (I was on a show; he was finishing). I watched a lot of that content then, including him. I was *sure* it was all an act à la Andy Kaufman.
fun fact: I thought he was 30-ish then. he was 20.
I've seen him in person once, at a Bernie rally in Austin. He was yelling in a megaphone about socialists or something. A woman brushed past him, and he started yelling about how she had assaulted him. I was in awe.
Unfortunately Alex Jones isn't going anywhere his dad started a company called Dr. Jones Naturals and Alex will be hocking the crap on a podcast no doubt.
he's already diverted his income stream from supplements to a company owned by his father and he openly advertises on Infowars for that. The mainstream right is still inviting him to their events, he was at the TP USA thing in Detroit last week..
I’m not misunderstanding it, to be clear. I just hope to hell that soon he no longer has places to hide. He owes those families $1.5B and he’d better start paying.
The thing is: he can still be pursued in state courts for moneys owed on a court order even AFTER he declares bankruptcy, and the Sandy Hook families have made it quite clear they're not going to stop coming for him. He can make as much money as he likes and 90% of it will still go to repayments.
I think he's tried to sneak it so all assets and income are now his father's, and he just earns nothing while Dad pays for everything.
I am sure this is the first time anyone has tried This One Weird Trick.
This is supposed to be illegal and something bankruptcy courts are supposed to watch out for, buuuut I’ll believe he won’t be allowed to get away with it when it actually happens.
Yeah.
I’m worried that, since the company owned by his father is apparently owed millions of dollars, that’ll get paid out first and the families will only get whatever scraps are left.
Especially since the court-appointed conservator has already said that the process of the family collecting the money is interfering with him winding down Infowars.
He’s been siphoning them off to his dad’s “supplements company” which he claims is owed $55 million by FSS. Honestly they should both get put in the mincer, they aren’t air gapped by any reasonable measure.
His combined assets went from somewhere between $135-270M before the families sued, to $10M now (per NPR)
There's a paper trail of him shifting multiple properties/houses to his wife and father which are now untouchable
There is no justice for those families, maybe someday, when he's dead
I'm not a violent person, nor do I believe in revenge. I believe only in reformative justice, not punitive.
That said...
I hope this evil fuck dies cold and alone, forgotten by the rest of mankind and mourned only by the ticks vacating his syphilitic taint.
He won't be broke
He's been transferring and hiding money in the tens of millions for years now
His dad got 50 mil to sit on
Another rich white asshole gets away with anything
Maybe, but doing anything significant with the money will get him sued for the money again.
He's been so uncooperative in the process so far that I would figure the system will assume he'll be trying to avoid compliance
He's been spending 100k a month for over a year now and the courts haven't stopped him
Until they freeze his assets and find every dollar squared away it's just performative bull
I want him working third shift in a fast food drive thru for life
