Sandy Hook Families Reject Alex Jones Settlement Offer: Report

[AZProgressive]

NEWTOWN, CT — The eight families of victims from the Sandy Hook mass killing, who successfully sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for defamation, have rejected his settlement offer of $120,000 for each family, reported the New Haven Register.

In the rejection motion filed in court Tuesday, the families said Jones essentially was trying to avoid sitting for depositions. The internet media host has skipped depositions this month for what he claims are medical reasons.

"The so-called offer is a transparent and desperate attempt by Alex Jones to escape a public reckoning under oath with his deceitful, profit-driven campaign against the plaintiffs and the memory of their loved ones lost at Sandy Hook," the rejection letter states.

Jones was sued by several families of victims of the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 students and six educators were killed. Jones had claimed the massacre was a hoax, but he later said the killings were real.

https://patch.com/connecticut/newtown/amp/30553649/sandy-hook-families-reject-alex-jones-settlement-offer-report

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Seriously, what an insulting offer

[doc03]

2. Bankrupt that SOB. nt

[Initech]

3. Seriously? That's it? What a POS!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. The Texas families also rejected Jones offer

The attorney handling this case is Juanita Jean's son. Susan sent me a copy of the letter to the Texas plaintiffs offering the $120,000 per family that Marked stamped with a large bullshit stamp.

There was a hearing today that Mark sent Susan the link to 3 minutes before the hearing started. The judge was not happy with Jones

Link to tweet

https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/judge-in-sandy-hook-case-holds-alex-jones-in-contempt-of-court-orders-escalating-fines-of-25000-per-day-until-infowars-host-sits-for-depositions/

A Connecticut judge on Wednesday afternoon issued a contempt finding against conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones. Fines of $25,000 per day will kick in starting Friday unless and until Jones sits for a deposition, but the fines will be refunded if Jones actually goes through with the deposition he skipped out on due to alleged health concerns last week.

The litigation surrounds alleged defamatory comments Jones made against the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook, Conn. school massacre.

“The argument is on the plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions,” Judge Barbara Bellis said at the beginning of the 47-minute hearing. “This isn’t a press conference,” she continued while warning attorneys not to talk about settlement offers which were summarily rubbished by the plaintiffs Tuesday evening.

Christopher Mattei, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said he didn’t wish to “belabor” the court with all the facts while he and co-counsel were in Texas attempting to take Jones’s deposition last week.