Judge Rules That Alex Jones Can Be Broke Forever

A federal judge ruled Friday that conspiracy theory—and supplement—hawker Alex Jones canis allowed to liquidate his assets in order to, so that he can pay the $1.5 billion he owes the families of the children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary. 

Jones originally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2022, which would allow him to retain operations of his business,  and use reorganization to scrape together the cash. But it wasn’t enough to pay off what he owed. 

Last week, Jones’s lawyers wrote in a filing that there was “no reasonable prospect for a successful reorganization,” and that filing for liquidation under Chapter 7 was the massacre denier’s only option. 

On Friday, a bankruptcy judge ruled that Jones would be able to convert that Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing into a Chapter 7 liquidation, according to NBC News. Judge Christopher Lopez of the Southern District of Texas ordered that Jones be assigned an interim trustee to help him through the process, and oversee the sale of Jones’s personal assets.

With this newest ruling, Jones inches closer to losing everything, including his stake in InfoWars, the pulpit from which the podcaster has continued to spew misinformation.

This is a developing story.