(PatriotPostNews.com) — A judge in the ongoing Alex Jones case recently ruled that the Infowars bank accounts are not yet required to be handed over to the families of Sandy Hook victims.
The case, which involves lawsuits from two sets of families, one in Texas and one in Connecticut, is part of the defamation suits won by victims’ families two years ago. However, there is an ongoing legal dispute related to how the previously awarded damages will be provided to the families.
Last week, Jones was ordered in court to liquidate all his personal assets. The same judge stirred up controversy for dismissing a separate case surrounding bankruptcy claims from Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Infowars. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022, following verdicts that awarded families in Connecticut $1.5 billion and those in Texas $49 million.
Judge Christopher Lopez presided over the hearing, which took place in Houston, Texas, and emphasized the need for “transparency” within the “process” of actually awarding the damages to victims’ families. He added that he is not interested in beginning “another dispute” surrounding the families, whom he described as having “been through enough already.”
Lopez scheduled another hearing for the middle of July, in which a trustee appointed by the court who is overseeing the personal and business accounts of Jones will share additional information. But tension is now flaring between the two sets of families. In Connecticut, families of eight victims requested an emergency motion to stop two parents in Texas from taking Jones’s business accounts.
A week earlier, 6-year-old victim Jesse Lewis’s parents—Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin—were granted permission to obtain the defendant’s business finances of roughly $2 million. While the two groups of plaintiffs are at odds with how to hold Jones accountable for the damages, Lopez considered the two plans beginning on June 14.
According to the Texas families’ attorney, Avi Moshenberg, the “best interest” of the plaintiffs would be to allow Infowars’ parent company to remain “an ongoing concern” in order for them to “collect.” Following the bankruptcy dismissal, the lawyer requested all of the company’s assets be transferred to the families’ accounts.
This move is currently being disputed by the Connecticut families, who argue that keeping the company in bankruptcy would be more equitable to the plaintiffs and accuse the Texas families of engaging in a “value-destructive money-grab.”
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