Alex Jones is trying to get out of paying the Sandy Hook families he has defamed for years.
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The conspiracy theorist was first recognized as having defamed the families of children and adults killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting three years ago. Since then, Jones attempted to use bankruptcy to hide his assets and was found to have cheated during the bankruptcy process. His business assets, like the InfoWars name, were sold to The Onion, but the sale was invalidated, and Jones bogged down the legal system with endless appeals in an attempt to avoid paying.
Alex Jones reached the end of the road on Tuesday, when the Supreme Court flatly rejected his appeal.
CNN reported:
The rejection could not have been more out of control. Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist, had filed a final appeal to the Supreme Court, and today, without any recorded vote or comment.
The judges flatly denied it. In fact, they immediately appealed that decision, which was handed down because juries found him liable for defamation and emotional distress for calling the massacre of all those schoolchildren at Sandy Hook a hoax.