Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media empire is up for auction

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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media empire is up for auction
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No, you can't bid on his wares – not yet. The online auction is not open to the public.

Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in restitution for defaming families of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.The Austin-based founder of Infowars was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in restitution for defaming families of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Jones regularly accused them of being crisis actors on his broadcasts. Jonesrelated to Info Wars and its parent company, Free Speech Systems. It is not open to the public.

"I saw the auctioneers inside the building, going around surveying from the last time they were here to make sure all the stuff's here – everything tagged, everything marked – this desk," he said.Infowars host Alex Jones speaks from his armored truck outside the Texas Capitol after the 2020 presidential election. The truck could go up for auction after a judge ordered assets related to Infowars be liquidated to pay more than a billion dollars in civil restitution.

If not enough money is raised to cover the restitution, the federal bankruptcy court could also order his personal assets to be liquidated court-orderedshed some light on those personal assets, including six Central Texas properties, more than $100,000 in firearms, a $3,000 cryotherapy chamber and a $200 rag doll cat.

The judge opted not to apply a $750,000 cap Texas imposes on punitive damages, questioning its constitutionality and saying Jones had “done something horrible” in claiming the shooting was faked.Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million to victims’ families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, adding to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued last month.

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