Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

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      1 year ago

      Because it’s still in process. This stuff goes slow but he will lose everything.

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      1 year ago

      Jones isn’t important enough to the machine that they’ll expend any energy or resources sheltering him. I bet this does get him in the end.