A Texas jury found Alex Jones, radio host and compensation seeker for the Sandy Hook victims’ parents on Thursday in a breaking news story from the Associated Press
BREAKING: Alex Jones was ordered by a jury to compensate Sandy Hook’s parents for more than $4,000,000 in conspiracy damages. The jury must still decide on punitive damages. https://t.co/hCaHP052d0
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 4, 2022
AP:
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, marking the first time the Infowars host has been held financially liable for repeatedly claiming the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was a hoax.
Austin’s jury will still have to decide the amount Neil Heslin, Scarlett Lewis should pay for punitive damages. Jesse Lewis, his son, was killed along with six teachers in Newtown’s 2012 terrorist attack.
Parents sought $150 million to be compensated for intentional infliction or defamation of emotional distress and defamation. Jones’ attorney asked the jury to limit damages to $8 — one dollar for each of the compensation charges they are considering — and Jones himself said any award over $2 million “would sink us.”
Jones could be subject to compensation obligations from now on, even though the decision regarding the damages is still pending in another case.
A Connecticut judge has ruled against him in a similar lawsuit brought by other victims’ families and an FBI agent who worked on the case.
As my colleague Joe Cunningham wrote on Wednesday, the bad news for the media provocateur started earlier this week, when Jones learned while on the stand to testify “[t]hat Jones’ own lawyer had sent a digital copy of Jones’ phone to the Sandy Hook lawyer by mistake and never attempted to claim it was privileged.”
But he also wrote that there’s also the ongoing demand from the House January 6 Committee to have access to Jones’ messages. This story isn’t going to be over anytime soon, in other words.
RedState has more information on this breaking news.
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