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Alex Jones / Sandy Hook trial starts next week-It will be live streamed on the court's youtube page (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 OP
Very good - nt Ohio Joe Jul 2022 #1
I have YouTube but.... FarPoint Jul 2022 #2
The court has its own youtube page LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #3
Thank you soooo much... FarPoint Jul 2022 #4
I got to hear the judge threaten to jail one of Jones' past attorneys LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #5
I have more time off work next week... FarPoint Jul 2022 #13
The only thing that sick fuck deserves PlanetBev Jul 2022 #6
why is there a trial? Takket Jul 2022 #7
Liability has been established but the amount of damages has to be determined by a jury LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #8
Didn't Jones try to separate his assets and claim some were untouchable? panader0 Jul 2022 #9
Alex Jones certainly tried to hide a lot of his InfoWars $$. crickets Jul 2022 #10
This was prebankruptcy scam LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #12
Oo, I missed that development. Thanks for the update! nt crickets Jul 2022 #14
I am friends with Juanita Jean and I have known Mark since before he went to law school LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #15
Jones filed a bad faith bankruptcy for three entities that had no assets LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #11
Juanita Jean's son, Mark Bankson, is the lead attorney for the Texas case LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #16
Hope they claw back every penny he's tried to hide. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2022 #17

FarPoint

(12,561 posts)
2. I have YouTube but....
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 05:25 PM
Jul 2022

am unclear as to where I need to look for this stream....Can you give a little more instruction?

LetMyPeopleVote

(146,816 posts)
3. The court has its own youtube page
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 05:28 PM
Jul 2022

You go to this page while the court is in session and you can watch the proceedings

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF_rPoUGrNEGiqEtiAPTLEg

I have watched a couple of the hearings in this case

LetMyPeopleVote

(146,816 posts)
5. I got to hear the judge threaten to jail one of Jones' past attorneys
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 05:37 PM
Jul 2022

According to Mark Bankston, the current attorney is up to speed on the record unlike many of Jones' past attorneys. This is interesting in that new attorney is a criminal defense attorney

This could be fun to watch

Takket

(21,853 posts)
7. why is there a trial?
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 05:51 PM
Jul 2022

i thought the court summarily ruled against him a few months ago for refusing to comply with court orders for documents? Didn't he already lose this case?

LetMyPeopleVote

(146,816 posts)
8. Liability has been established but the amount of damages has to be determined by a jury
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 05:55 PM
Jul 2022

This trial is only on damages. The same holds true for the Connecticut case

panader0

(25,816 posts)
9. Didn't Jones try to separate his assets and claim some were untouchable?
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 06:02 PM
Jul 2022

I believe the judge ruled against that. ?

crickets

(26,045 posts)
10. Alex Jones certainly tried to hide a lot of his InfoWars $$.
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 06:53 PM
Jul 2022
https://democraticunderground.com/10142901004 [see post #24 in particular]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/alex-jones-accused-jaw-dropping-160251301.html

InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones talks a lot about preparing for the apocalypse, selling his fans all manner of ways to stock their bunkers ahead of the end of the world. But now plaintiffs for Sandy Hook families suing Jones allege that he’s “doomsday prepped” his own business ahead of hefty legal judgments, illicitly moving money out of InfoWars into shell companies to avoid paying his victims.

In a court motion filed Wednesday in Texas, the families claim that he has concealed InfoWars’ assets to make the company appear to be nearly bankrupt. The families were joined in the motion by another man suing Jones for falsely accusing him of carrying out the 2018 Parkland shooting. The filing was first posted online by Courthouse News. [snip]

On paper, InfoWars parent company Free Speech Systems seems to lose money every year. Yet Jones has allegedly transferred significant amounts out of the company—financial transactions that often coincide with legal setbacks Jones has faced in the Sandy Hook cases. After the families sued him in 2018, for example, Jones allegedly started personally withdrawing a total of $18 million from the Free Speech Systems bank account over three years, along with drawing an annual $600,000 salary.

Many of the suspicious transfers center on a mysterious company called PQPR, which the plaintiffs claim is controlled by Jones and his family members. Shortly after Jones lost his last appeal to block the defamation cases in Texas, PQPR claimed that Free Speech Systems owed it $54 million—almost all of InfoWars’ assets. [more]


It doesn't look as though the attempt is going to work.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-jones-1-million-sandy-hook-parkland-lawsuits_n_625da270e4b0be72bff8f125

LetMyPeopleVote

(146,816 posts)
12. This was prebankruptcy scam
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 07:22 PM
Jul 2022

Both the Connecticut and Texas plaintiffs have filed a motion for trustee to stop this. After the trustee motion was filed, Jones tried the bankruptcy scam

LetMyPeopleVote

(146,816 posts)
11. Jones filed a bad faith bankruptcy for three entities that had no assets
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 07:18 PM
Jul 2022

This was an attempt to cram down a plan under Subchapter 5 of Chapter 11, The US Trustee and the Sandy Hook parents objected and Jones had to dismiss the bankruptcy. The Texas plaintiffs were supposed to go to trial in May and now the first trial is next week

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/107862029

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