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Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $100K+ to Sandy Hook Parents
Conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, Alex Jones, has been sanctioned by a judge to the tune of more than $100,000, in a lawsuit which has not yet even seated a jury or begun presenting evidence.
The suit was filed by the father of one of the victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre of December 14, 2012. Neil Heslin, father of six-year-old Jesse, has accused Jones and his now virtually defunct conspiracy central media organization “Infowars” of producing, publishing and disseminating lies; specifically, that the Sandy Hook killings were a staged hoax perpetrated by paid actors and the “liberal media.”
As reported by The Hill and the New York Times, Judge Scott Jenkins of Travis County District Court in Texas, ordered Jones and InfoWars to pay $65,825 in sanctions for violations of his discovery orders, and another $34,323.80 in attorneys’ fees for their open and flagrant disregard of court orders relative to the discovery process itself.
Again, Jones repeatedly claimed and argued on air that either the shootings/murders did not happen, or that if they did, it was a totally staged event designed to kick-start stricter gun control laws in Congress.
Jones went so far as to claim that the grieving parents of these children were paid “crisis actors.”
