Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

  • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You would think he would pay, but look at OJ. Verdict to pay 30 million, and after all these years he only did 130,000.

    Getting assets seized and wages garnished is not as easy as you would think.

    • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah that’strue. From what little I know OJ is allowed to make/keep enough so that he’s far from destitute, but he sure hasn’t don’t anything redeeming since.

      I guess if you know your work would lead to money that you can’t keep, you’d choose to just not work.