Alex Jones’ Personal Assets Will Be Sold to Pay Sandy Hook Families, Federal Judge Rules

A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of political commentator Alex Jones’ personal assets to pay families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. U.S. District Judge Christopher Lopez is still deciding on a separate bankruptcy case involving Mr. Jones’s company, leaving the future of the InfoWars platform in doubt. The judge approved converting Mr. Jones’s proposed personal bankruptcy reorganization to a liquidation. He planned to hear testimony on whether his company, Austin, Texas-based Free Speech Systems, also should be liquidated. Free Speech Systems is Infowars’ parent company. The ruling Friday means many of Mr. Jones’s personal assets will be sold off. But his primary home in the Austin area and some other belongings are exempt from bankruptcy liquidation. He already has moved to sell his Texas ranch worth about $2.8 million, a gun collection, and other assets to help pay debts....