Sandy Hook Families Ask Court to Liquidate Alex Jones’ Media Company

Attorneys for the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims have asked the court to liquidate Alex Jones’s media company, citing his alleged failure to come up with a reorganization plan. Mr. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems (FSS), filed for bankruptcy in December 2022 after being ordered to pay about $1.5 billion in damages for questioning whether the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, was an orchestrated hoax perpetrated by crisis actors to push gun control laws. The victims’ families sued Mr. Jones for allegedly causing emotional distress. Twenty children and six adults were killed in the shooting. Attorneys for the families filed an emergency motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston on June 2, demanding that the FSS case be converted from a Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation and that Mr. Jones’s media company be shut down immediately....