Alex Jones required to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to Sandy Hook parents
A Texas jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim on Friday, just one day after the jury decided on separate compensatory damages.
“I’ll take it!” the attorney for the parents Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin said after the figure was reached on Friday, according to The New York Times.
Lewis and Heslin, whose son Jesse Lewis was one of close to two dozen children who died in the shooting, sued Jones’s media company Free Speech Systems and the conspiracy theorist himself for defamation, according to The Associated Press.
A jury on Thursday ordered Jones, who has baselessly claimed that the 2012 school shooting was a hoax, to pay over $4 million in compensatory damages.
Jones has pushed false claims about the school shooting, including alleging that no children died in the massacre.
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#BREAKING: Alex Jones required to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to Sandy Hook parents https://t.co/UQI1MFUrUc pic.twitter.com/lnG620hsjE
— The Hill (@thehill) August 5, 2022
Jones will find a way not to pay. He’s already declared bankruptcy for some of his business interests. Will probably declare personal bankruptcy, bankruptcy for his remaining businesses, transfer ownership to others, send money offshore, whatever it takes to avoid paying.
By the way, the compensatory and punitive damages are not nearly enough for what damage he has caused to the victims’ families, but no amount ever will be.
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