Sandy Hook victims’ families asked a court to remove Alex Jones and his bankrupt company that runs conspiracy website Infowars from controlling its operations and chapter 11 proceedings, arguing that the right-wing radio host improperly seized millions of dollars in assets, Bloomberg Law reported. “There are no honest debtors here,” the victims’ families said in a filing Thursday at the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. “Since the Sandy Hook Families filed their lawsuits, the Debtor has systematically transferred millions of dollars to Alex Jones and his relatives and insider entities.” Free Speech Systems LLC, the Jones-controlled company that operates Infowars, should be removed as “debtor in possession” of its bankruptcy case, the families said. That would leave an independent trustee in charge of the case filed under the small business section of chapter 11, known as subchapter V. Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy in July, after some victims’ families won judgments in their defamation lawsuits against the company and Jones for his lies that the 2012 school shooting was a hoax. In one recent case, a jury awarded parents of a child killed in the shooting nearly $50 million in damages. Jones himself took between $18 million and $62 million from Free Speech since the families filed suit—even though the company was allegedly insolvent—according to the Thursday filing.
