It was first of two legal blows dealt to far-right broadcaster on Wednesday. Later in day, Supreme Court Justice Barbara Bellis found to him in contempt of court for court-ordered evasion last week in his hometown of Austin. Starting Friday, she said, he will be fined $25,000 for each weekday if he doesn’t follow the rules. Fines will increase by $25,000 for each weekday.
Jones blamed undisclosed health problems for his failure to show saying the doctors ordered him not to work or sit for interrogation. However, while they were doing this, he was busy do four o’clock broadcast of “The Alex Jones Show” in his Austin studio.
Lawyers for families had wanted he was arrested.
Refusal of Sandy Hook’s relatives of Jones proposal sets the stage for the parties meet in court. The jury must decide how how much will jones pay over his false allegations that the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut – which left 20 junior schoolchildren and six adults dead — was a “gigantic hoax.”
There is a libel case already it was decided in service of families. IN one of but series of legal defeats for Jones over his lies about Sandy Hook, Supreme Court Justice Barbara Bellis ruled in November that Jones was sued in default after he and his company refused to go to court. over documents like required court.
In a statement posted to his website ahead of Wednesday’s hearing, Jones said he had a “sincere and longstanding” desire resolve the lawsuit, noting that the Sandy Hook shooting lasted “nearly a decade”. behind us”. He portrayed the families’ lawyers as “ambulance hunters” and offered them destroy “Informovars”.
“We’re not going to drive out of business ambitious lawyers or those who I hate dissent,” he said.
Families behind lawsuit, including relatives of four children and two caregivers killed in shooting and also first defendant who was at the scene of the incident, conducted judicial battle against Jones for years. They approve in court records that he profited from spreading “outrageous, malicious and deeply offensive lies” which he knows to be untrue, suggesting that the shooting was “false operation “flag” perpetuated by “crisis actors”.
His baseless theories, they say, came with real- life consequences.
“How result of Jones campaign families and survivors of the Sandy Hook shooters were forced to endure malicious and cruel insults from of ruthless and unscrupulous people”, says the complaint filed in 2018. “On regular basis, families and survivors have faced physical confrontation and harassment.”
Jones retracted his comments about Sandy Hook. in 2019 testimony accusing them on “the form of psychosis.” Offer of settlement he extended Tuesday gave a few vague words of remorse: “Mr. Jones sincerely apologizes for any upset of his remarks caused”.
But the families and their lawyers were not satisfied. Lawyer Christopher Mattei criticized the absence of Jones in testimonies planned last week as a “cowardly display for the purpose of defrauding plaintiffs of their right to swear him in and ask him questions,” Connecticut Public Radio reported.
In search of Jones’ arrest, the families’ attorneys said that his “strategy of obfuscation and delay tactics all-too-familiar territory now.”
Jones replied with “Informovars” post titled “Sandy Hook Mafia Demands Arrest of Alex Jones: Legendary Talk Show Host’s Response”. In it, he claimed that he was “treated worse than anyone else”. on death row.” His lawyers said in court records stating that he voluntarily sat for testimony in other Sandy Hook trials and just “listened to my doctors”.
Bellis, however, ruled that he “deliberately and in bad faith violated groundlessly several clear court orders requiring his presence to testify,” Reuters reported. If he completed his testimony by April 15, she said, he might clear contempt order, although it will face fines for every weekday he refuses.
