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A court-appointed trustee will soon begin to auction off pieces of Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars, to pay back the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting victims, the report continued. Jones owes them $1.5 billion in a defamation judgment after he claimed the massacre, which killed 26 people — 20 of them children – was a hoax.
The trustee will sell everything from chairs and production equipment to the InfoWars brand name, the supplement website he used to fund it, NPR said.
However, that does not include Jones' X.com with its 3 million followers. The court ruled that belonged to the 50-year-old Texan and not Free Speech Systems, the report said.
The families' lawyer argued that the username @RealAlexJones should be sold to pay back the victims because it has monetary value. The attorneys said they would likely push to have the account as part of the sell-off, the report continued.
In all, the Sandy Hook families will likely only recoup about $8 million of the billion-dollar judgment from Jones, NPR said.
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