Alex Jones and his conspiracy website InfoWars must pay $100,000 in legal fees in a defamation case brought by the father of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook shooting massacre, a Texas judge ordered recently.
Jones was sued by Neil Heslin, whose son Jesse Lewis was killed in the 2012 shooting, for defamation over Jones’ since-abandoned assertion that the event was a hoax.
Heslin is one of a number of mourning parents who’ve sued Jones and InfoWars; others have sued in Connecticut.
In a Dec. 20 ruling, Judge Scott Jenkins ruled that Jones owed $65,825 in fees and sanctions for disregarding an October court order over witness production and other materials. He later added $34,323 to that sum and dismissed Jones’ motion to dismiss Heslin’s lawsuit.
The Daily Beast first reported the ruling Monday night, and noted that it brought Jones’ total court-ordered penalties in the case to $126,023.
Make him pay it back working off the salary of a JPMorgan teller.
Uh Oh Mr. Jones, might have to increase to price on some of those ‘supplements’ you sell those brain-addled fools you call listeners.
Jones has one of those crack cocaine voices, rattly in there somewhere.
Maybe developed while trying to incite a riot at the millennium - anybody remember that one?
Never found a theater he didn’t want to shout Fire! in.
Make 'em pay civilly, if not criminally.
Is this an intermediate legal fee pmt to support the case against him as it continues, or is this the end of this particular case?