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Families suing Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who hosts the right-wing commentary website Infowars, rejected his offer Tuesday to settle a defamation lawsuit filed in response to his claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
Attorneys for Jones offered $120,000 each to 13 plaintiffs who sued him over his false claims about the December 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 26 dead, including 20 children.
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Before Jones' settlement offers were rejected, Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ordered him to sit for a deposition last week, but Jones failed to appear. Jones was "following his doctor's advice," Kevin Smith, another Jones attorney, told CNN.
Bellis had denied Jones' request to delay the deposition due to an undisclosed medical condition saying, "the medical issues, while potentially serious, are not currently serious enough to either require his hospitalization or convince him to stop engaging in his broadcasts."
Jones' attorneys argued their client was not well enough to sit for a deposition and was under doctor's orders not to leave his home, but confirmed in a court filing he was still hosting a live show on his website.
"Mr. Jones cannot unilaterally decide to continue to engage in his broadcasts, but refuse to participate in a Deposition," Bellis said in a decision Thursday.
The plaintiffs asked Bellis to hold Jones in contempt for failing to appear for the deposition. They've also asked for him to be incarcerated until he appears and pay escalating fines starting at $25,000 per day until he completes the court ordered deposition.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/us/alex-jones-sandy-hook-settlement-rejected/index.html
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)InfoWars goes dark. Right now. You auction off 100 percent of its assets and donate the money to groups fighting gun violence. Then you never start another media company.
AndyS
(14,559 posts)MontanaMama
(23,242 posts)These terms are appropriate.
Escurumbele
(3,340 posts)Scruffy1
(3,239 posts)When I first came across this whack job over twenty years ago he had no money. I don't think he has any today so I'm guessing someone with deep pockets is behind his scam.
kacekwl
(6,994 posts)That's an insult and hilarious. Better get on the phone to your benefactors Jones and beg for more. Sell your soul you pay the price.
Escurumbele
(3,340 posts)I hope they stay firm and he is out forever from radio/TV and anywhere anyone can hear/read his thoughts.
SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)Still not near what it should be, but maybe more than he has lying around.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)How many years now has this suit been going on now?
Just like Matt Gaetz, Sidney Powell, and of course the fat orange traitor himself. It seems like their lawyers are able to delay delay deny delay forever. Or until the other side has exhausted their money for lawyers.
Meanwhile, they can sway public opinion spewing whatever garbage they want for literally years, before they even see the inside of a court room. By that time, all those in the umbrella of their influence have all hardened their beliefs in the innocence of their brainwasher.
Its happening with Trump too. Even if the DOJ gets a spine, and convicts TFG, which Im not holding my breath for, it will take years and years of appeals etc...enough time for TFG and his minions to firmly establish that whatever penalties result from any conviction is obviously just part of a conspiracy by the "far left".
Traildogbob
(8,584 posts)Bring an approved slap to his fat mug. Burn his ass down. All the way down. End him and make a statement to all the other right wing shit filled, civil war inciting media. Speak freely, but face consequences from slander and bull shit. Let him go do karaoke for a living. In a double wide trailer saloon way back deep in a Trump paradise where the shine flows and guns are plentiful. Wave em rebel flags and shoot the ceiling chanting Lock her up, build that wall, lets go Brandon.