Alex Jones' Infowars shutdown looms as some Sandy Hook families seek to collect company assets immediately
A federal bankruptcy judge is holding a hearing Thursday on whether to temporarily stop Sandy Hook victims' families who are trying, without delay, to collect assets from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' media company as it is poised to be sold off. The request to block those parents was initiated by court-appointed trustee Christopher Murray, who is overseeing the liquidation of Jones' estate.
A federal bankruptcy judge is holding a hearing Thursday on whether to temporarily stop Sandy Hook victims' families who are trying, without delay, to collect assets from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' media company as it is poised to be sold off.
The request to block those parents was initiated by court-appointed trustee Christopher Murray, who is overseeing the liquidation of Jones' estate. He accused certain families in an emergency filing Sunday of attempting a "value-destructive money grab" while he has yet to conclude "an orderly wind-down" and sale of the company, Free Speech Systems.
Murray said the "specter of a pell-mell seizure of FSS's assets, including its cash, threatens to throw the business into chaos, potentially stopping it in its tracks, to the detriment of the interests of the chapter 7 estate for which the Trustee is responsible."
He is asking Judge Christopher Lopez of the Southern District of Texas to implement a 90-day pause on the ability for families and other creditors to collect from the sale of assets, including the liquidation of the company's inventory.
The latest legal dispute has exposed a rift between the Sandy Hook Elementary School families who filed a defamation lawsuit in Texas, where Jones resides, and in Connecticut, where the massacre unfolded in 2012. A gunman killed 20 first grade children and six adults.
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