Sandy Hook

The conspiracy theorist is ordered to pay damages after branding the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Jones and his entourage flew to Connecticut from Texas for the trial in a private jet. "The money does not go to these people," he said. Jones has disputed that figure. Jones broadcast himself watching Wednesday's verdict and scoffing at the court proceedings. Some described receiving a deluge of online hate and others said they had to move homes repeatedly for their own safety. Jones, for his part, slammed the proceedings as a "show trial" run by a "tyrant" judge and argued he was not to blame for the actions of his followers.

The verdict is the second big judgment against him over his promotion of the lie that the massacre never happened, and that grieving families were actors ...

During the trial in Texas, he testified he couldn’t afford any judgment over $2 million. He claimed it was a conspiracy by Democrats and the media to silence him and put him out of business. It is unclear how much of the verdicts Jones can afford to pay. Experts testified that Jones’ audience swelled when he made Sandy Hook a topic on the show, as did his revenue from product sales. But both in the courtroom and on his show, he was defiant. [the shooting](https://apnews.com/article/violence-ee24f46a30d2426089b83bb2897dce4e) on Dec.

WATERBURY, Conn. — The families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims on Wednesday won nearly $1 billion in damages from the Infowars fabulist Alex Jones, ...

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Alex Jones will owe families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting $965 million for promoting the lie that the massacre was a hoax, ...

He’s told many lies about the shooting, and said that the tragedy was “as fake as the $3 bill." “Nobody should ever have to endure the kind of harassment and persecution that Alex Jones caused, especially the families of those killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School,” Lamont said in a statement. Jones has portrayed the families as part of a conspiracy to fake the shooting and take people’s guns. “Our lawyers helped give me the strength to finally find my voice in the fight and to stand up to what had been happening to me so long,” Parker said. “After almost a decade of threats and messages from conspiracy theorists led by Jones, this is a moment years in the making,” Lafferty told reporters. In more than 200 trials in the course of my career, I’ve never seen a trial like this.

Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a total of $965 million in damages to the plaintiffs of the defamation trial surrounding his lies about the 2012 Sandy ...

Earlier in his show, Jones said, “This must be what Hell’s like, they just read out the damages. Meanwhile, the families have suffered harassment and death threats by Jones’ followers for a decade and are “drowning in grief,” said attorney Chris Mattei. The 15 plaintiffs of the case included the relatives of eight Sandy Hook victims, as well as a former FBI agent suing Jones.