I was forcibly subjected to his late night rantings and infomercial hucksterism while working as an overnight bakery assistant in a chain “restaurant” back around 2012 or thereabouts.
I’m curious…has anyone here actually listened to Alex Jones’ program? I realize that the readers of WEIT aren’t exactly his target audience, so I would be surprised if anyone here purposely sought him out. Jury sends clear message to Alex Jones that they believe he needs to stop. Soon he will be selling pencils from a tin cup on a street corner: There is no cap on punitive damages under that law.Īlex Jones may be wealthy, but I don’t think he has a billion dollars, and the final damages are yet to come Jones, because he was found liable of violating Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act, by using lies about the shooting to sell products on Infowars. This case presented the greatest financial risk to Mr. Jones being ordered to pay $4 million in compensatory damages and $45.2 million in punitive damages to the Mr. An earlier trial, in the suit brought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, parents of Jesse Lewis, ended with Mr.
#Archimedes plutonium trial#
Jones has a third Sandy Hook damages trial pending stemming from a defamation suit he lost to Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of Noah Pozner. The plaintiffs were awarded varying amounts by the jurors, who considered their testimony and other evidence presented in court to gauge the damage done to their reputations, invasion of their privacy and other factors. The jury’s decision divided the money among 15 plaintiffs: 14 relatives of eight Sandy Hook victims, and William Aldenberg, an F.B.I. He used his Infowars platform to spread these lies. As a result, the families were threatened in person and online.
Jones had been found liable for defamation after he spent years falsely describing the shooting as a hoax and accusing the victims’ families of being actors complicit in the plot. agent who responded to the scene of the 2012 massacre, which killed 20 first graders and six educators.
#Archimedes plutonium free#
Here’s the NYT story ripped from the headlines:Īlex Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, must pay close to $1 billion to the family members of eight victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary and an F.B.I.
Just a few minutes ago, a jury in Connecticut ruled that the Infowars loon will have to pay the families of Sandy Hook victims (and an FBI agent) almost a billion dollars. The chickens have come home to roost in Alex Jones’s purse, and they’re going to pick it clean.
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