A Conspiracy Theorist Who Lied About Sandy Hook Has To Pay $100,000 In Court Costs, Judge Rules

A judge just sorted professional conspiracy theorist and leader of the right-wing site Infowars Alex Jones to pay more than $100,000 in legal fees related to a court case filed against him by a family member who lost a child in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, according to The Day-to-day Beast, which first announced on the ruling. This is just the newest victory in the long battle between Jones and those directly affected by Sandy Hook, a couple of of whom are suing him for spreading a debunked conspiracy theory that recommended the 2012 elementary school mass shooting was a hoax; the theory further claimed that no one died, once 20 children and six adults were killed by a perpetrator.


Jones is now facing two separate lawsuits against him and his agency from Neil Heslin, Leonard Pozner, and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of children who died at Sandy Hook, according to The Cut. While neither case is over nevertheless, on Dec. 20, Travis County judge Scott Jenkins grouped Jones and Infowars pay $65,825 for not paying attention to a court categorize about distributing documents and witnesses and $34,323 to cover Heslin’s legal fees, according to the New York Times. Both payments are related to the Heslin suit. Jenkins mentioned that Jones’ and Infowars’ approach to the case — which is wildly uncooperative — “should be treated as contempt of court,” according to the Times.


“It’s hardly a surprise that someone like Alex Jones would soon find himself in contempt of court, although right now he is learning there really are severe implications to his utter disrespect for this process,” Mark Bankston, one of Heslin’s attorneys, mentioned in an email to The Day-to-day Beast.


“Mr. Jones is learning that he cannot treat the courts with the same contempt he showed my clients,” Bankston instructed them Times. “In disobeying court orders, Mr. Jones has shown how desperate he is to make sure nobody finds out how Infowars really operates, or the lengths the agency went to accomplish its five-year campaign of malicious harassment against these parents.”


that shows this case hasn’t even reached trial nevertheless, and Jones and Infowars already need to pay more than $100,000. According to the Times, the trial should be set some time in 2020.


Several of these whose families were affected by Sandy Hook have since worked to eradicate gun violence and supporter for stronger gun-control laws. Right following the attack, a few people who lost loved ones at Sandy Hook founded Sandy Hook Promise, and Nelba Márquez-Greene founded the Ana Grace Project in memory of her daughter. Shannon Watts, who was horrified at the inaction in the aftermath of the shooting, founded Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense, which blossomed into the Everytown for Gun Safety organization.


“Nothing matters if your kid is dead. Nothing matters. It's very simple,” JT Lewis, a Republican candidate for Connecticut state senate who lost his little brother in Sandy Hook, told MTV News this year about gun safety. “We need to repair this first. You're not safe in your schools, you're not safe in your communities, nothing else matters. This is an enormous issue.”