This wasn't a huge surprise, punitive damages aren't dischargable through bankruptcy. It's not supposed to absolve bad actors and let them start scamming again, so if they've fucked around it's more than willing to keep letting them find out.
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Good. I hope his great great grandchildren are left cursing his name because they inherit his debt. May his name be cursed, and his face fucked by demons in hell forever.
I don’t really hope his grandchildren inherit his debt, that’s not fair to them. I don’t know anything about them.
I’m sure they’ll look at how he could have left them enough to live a life of utter luxury beyond the imagination of 90% of people and instead lost it all on this.
That's not how it works in America FYI. Children can't inherit parent's debt. They can have inheritances taken away and they can assume debt, but it doesn't automatically go to them.
yeah the estate is responsible for debt but it stops there.
His kids will probably grow up cursing his name anyway, inheriting debt is pretty unfair.
However other shitty business associates who helped him spread this dangerous bullshit should be liable - as well as those who help him hide his money. These are the people to go after.
The sins of your fellow humans are not yours. He committed crimes, not his children and they shouldn't be punished for it.
I do hope any savings he put away from them are liquidated though. They were paid for by his victims, his kids were in innocent but that shouldn't mean they get a free ride either. Let them go to public school. Like the students of sandy hook.
You support inheriting debt? That's such a shit viewpoint
Archived on October 20, 2023: Judge Won’t Let Alex Jones Use Bankruptcy to Avoid Sandy Hook Damages
2024?
Fixed :)
It would suck if this same headline popped up in a year.
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The judge in Alex Jones’s bankruptcy case ruled on Thursday that he will not be allowed to use his Chapter 11 filing to evade paying more than $1 billion in verdicts to families of the Sandy Hook shooting.
The ruling by Judge Christopher Lopez in a Houston bankruptcy court means that Mr. Jones, the Infowars conspiracy broadcaster, will likely be working the rest of his life to pay his debt to the families.
Mr. Jones spent years spreading lies that the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax aimed at confiscating Americans’ firearms.
But he excluded $323 million in attorneys’ fees and costs awarded in the Connecticut lawsuit, ruling that the trial record did not clearly establish that those damages stemmed from “willful and malicious” actions.
So while he was “reckless,” his lawyer Chris Davis said, “the idea that he had a willful and malicious intent is in substantial and factual dispute,” and needed to be adjudicated separately in court.
Though the ruling largely closes off a forced outcome like that, settlement talks continue because Mr. Jones’s current assets are likely not sufficient to cover the damages in full.
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