Plaintiffs for Sandy Hook families suing Alex Jones allege that he’s “doomsday prepped” his own business ahead of hefty legal judgments, illicitly moving money out of InfoWars into shell companies to avoid paying his victims.
talks a lot about preparing for the apocalypse, selling his fans all manner of ways to stock their bunkers ahead of the end of the world. But now plaintiffs for Sandy Hook families suing Jones allege that he’s “doomsday prepped” his own business ahead of hefty legal judgments, illicitly moving money out of InfoWars into shell companies to avoid paying his victims.in Texas, the families claim that he has concealed InfoWars’ assets to make the company appear to be nearly bankrupt.
Free Speech Systems began transferring its money to PQPR, then onto a series of shell corporations controlled by other Jones family members, according to the motion. While the payments were ostensibly made to pay off the hefty $54 million in arrears—a debt PQPR hadn’t bothered to enforce in the seven years during which InfoWars racked up the tens of millions in supposed debt—the plaintiffs say this was just a scheme to shelter InfoWars assets in an “alphabet soup of shell entities.
The debt payments accelerated after a Texas judge ruled before trial that Jones lost his case, an unusual step taken because of Jones’ repeated violations of other legal rules. Since that ruling, the plaintiffs say Free Speech Systems has paid PQPR between $11,000 each day and $11,000 each week, along with as much as 80 percent of InfoWars’ sales revenue. In their motion, the lawyers for the Sandy Hook families describe the payments as “jaw-dropping.
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