Alex Jones concealing money to avoid paying Sandy Hook families $1.5 billion: Report

Conrad Hoyt

March 20, 02:03 AM March 20, 02:03 AM

Alex Jones is reportedly transferring money to family and friends in an effort to conceal the funds and avoid having to pay the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting approximately $1.5 billion.

The conspiracy theorist has transferred assets worth millions of dollars outside the reach of creditors, according to a New York Times investigation into Jones's financial and legal documents. Jones was ordered in court to pay the nearly $1.5 billion last year after years of claiming the mass shooting was an elaborate hoax set up by the government to take guns away from Americans.

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Last month, Sandy Hook victim families raised concerns in court that Jones was echoing similar rhetoric that he did on InfoWars, just on a new platform, his subscription-based podcast, Alex Jones Live. They said he could use the show to spread disinformation and liquidate his bankrupt business.

Jones's lawyer said her client had promised to stop creating new content and that the podcast was a "test" and not a scheme to get out of paying his court-ordered fines. InfoWars's parent company, Free Speech Systems, which Jones also owns, filed for bankruptcy in July. Jones filed for personal bankruptcy in December, claiming he could only afford to pay less than 1% of the Sandy Hook judgments against him and his company.

"I’m officially out of money, personally," Jones said on Infowars in December, per the . "It’s all going to be filed. It’s all going to be public. And you will see that Alex Jones has almost no cash."

However, the New York Times's investigation has found irregularities in this narrative. In addition to Jones spending $80,000 on security, a private jet, and a villa during his time in Connecticut last year to testify at trial, he also appeared to have been sneaking away his money to various entities.

The report revealed that in October 2021, Jones made a business agreement with Auriam Services, a month-old company founded by Jones's friend and lifestyle blogger Anthony Gucciardi, meant to function as a credit card processing intermediary.

Then, in February 2022, Jones transferred his $3 million estate in Austin, Texas, to his wife, Erika Wulff Jones. The estate stretches across 5,400 square feet and has four bedrooms and five bathrooms, along with a pool and a spa, per the Guardian.

The investigation also found that Jones signed a contract last July (the same month Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy) with Blue Ascension, a new company founded just a few months prior by Patrick Riley, Jones’s former personal trainer and assistant.

Earlier this month, Free Speech Systems proposed a bankruptcy plan that would pay an annual salary of $520,000 to Jones and leave $7 million to $10 million to annually pay creditors, including the victims’ families, according to the .

Jones claimed for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary was a hoax and the victims were child actors. In October, a Connecticut jury awarded the victims' families $965 million in compensatory damages while the judge added another $473 million in punitive damages. In 2022, a Texas jury also awarded the parents of a child killed in the shooting $49 million in damages.

Jones got his start in broadcasting in the 1990s in Austin, Texas. His conspiracy theories about the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City got him booted off a local radio station. In 1999, he founded InfoWars, which started small but developed into a place for him and his guests to ramble on, often without any evidence, about conspiracy theories.

He has called himself a "truther" and claimed the Bush administration was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was staged by the FBI, and the 2011 shooting of former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords was a government mind control operation. Six people, including a 9-year-old girl, were killed in the 2011 attack, and 12 others were injured.

SEE IT: Twitter erupts after Kanye West claims to love Nazis and Hitler

Julia Johnson

December 01, 05:42 PM December 01, 05:42 PM

The world is reacting to new statements from Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, revealing a love for both Adolf Hitler and Nazis.

In an appearance on Alex Jones's controversial Infowars, Ye talked for roughly three hours with the host and fellow guest and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. He made several antisemitic remarks, going as far as to say, "I see good things about Hitler."

"Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler," he said.

Former NFL quarterback and current ESPN analyst Robert Griffin III tweeted, "Somebody tell Kanye to SHUT UP!!!" as news of the broadcast made its way to the social media site.

Meghan McCain did not mince words in her reaction, saying, "F*** Kanye and everyone who keeps giving him a platform."

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Edward Snowden, a former computer intelligence consultant with the National Security Agency who leaked highly classified information in 2013, also spoke up, tweeting, "Turns out kanye is not gonna be president."

Politicians similarly began to react to clips of Ye's remarks, with Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) calling his comments "disgusting." "His pattern of anti-Semitic behavior is unacceptable and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. We must call out this hateful rhetoric and root out anti-Semitism wherever it rears its ugly head," she added.

"Kanye West is putrid and vile! He has been spewing antisemitic beliefs everywhere & yet he was invited to break bread with the former President & leader of the Republican Party. There is no place in this country for this hate & no place for those who turn a blind eye to it!" said DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison.

Soon after the remarks came to light, the Republican Jewish Coalition released a statement condemning the episode and Ye's antisemitism. The coalition called the trio of Jones, Ye, and Fuentes "a disgusting triumvirate of conspiracy theorists, Holocaust deniers & antisemites," adding that they created a "horrific cesspool of dangerous, bigoted Jew hatred."

Some Democrats noted that the House Judiciary GOP's Twitter account deleted a prior tweet praising Ye.

According to Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), the House Judiciary GOP "finally couldn't support Kanye after he said, 'I see good things about Hitler also.' I guess they're fine with everything he said before that."

"For 2 months Jim Jordan refused to delete this tweet. Even after Kanye declared war on Jews. As he usually does, Jim looked the other way. Only after Kanye praised Hitler today did Jim delete the tweet. We have the receipts, Jim. And for 2 months you were cool with Jew-bashing," wrote Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).

A spokesperson for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told the Washington Examiner, “Mr. Jordan does not run the JudiciaryGOP account. Maybe Fang Fang told Mr. Swalwell incorrectly.”

Music and entertainment magazine Billboard tweeted early Thursday, recognizing Ye as its "Top Gospel Artist of 2022," but apparently deleted the tweet as he began trending for his appearance on Infowars.

The term "Kanye" was the No. 2 trend on Twitter in the United States hours after the broadcast's conclusion.