The far-right web site InfoWars on Sunday filed for voluntary chapter 11 chapter safety within the US chapter courtroom for the southern district of Texas, within the face of a number of defamation lawsuits.
Chapter 11 chapter procedures put a maintain on all civil litigation issues and permit corporations to organize turnaround plans whereas remaining operational.
Alex Jones, founding father of InfoWars, was discovered chargeable for damages in three lawsuits final yr filed after he falsely claimed the 2012 Sandy Hook faculty capturing was a hoax.
Jones claimed the capturing, during which 20 kids and 6 faculty workers have been shot lifeless on the faculty in Newtown, Connecticut, was fabricated by gun-control advocates and mainstream media.
In March, Sandy Hook households rejected Jones’s supply to settle their defamation lawsuit and reopened the case. Jones had provided to pay $120,000 to every of 13 plaintiffs.
Every of the plaintiffs turned down the settlement supply in courtroom paperwork, saying: “The so-called supply is a clear and determined try by Alex Jones to flee a public reckoning beneath oath together with his deceitful, profit-driven marketing campaign towards the plaintiffs and the reminiscence of their family members misplaced at Sandy Hook.”
In response to Sunday’s courtroom filings, InfoWars listed its estimated property within the vary of $0-$50,000 and estimated liabilities within the vary of $1m to $10m.
Jones, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, was beforehand subpoenaed by the Home of Representatives committee investigating the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol by Trump supporters.