Alex Jones Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy After $1.5 Billion Verdict
InfoWars host Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday after he was ordered to pay about $1.5 billion for his comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.
A filing from Jones said that he has between $1 million and $10 million in assets and between $1 billion and $10 billion in liabilities. His lawyers made the filing (pdf) at a U.S. bankruptcy court in Houston, asking for Chapter 11 protection from creditors.
The extent of Jones’s personal wealth is not clear, according to the filing.
“I, Alexander E. Jones, the Debtor in the above-styled bankruptcy proceeding, state under penalty of perjury and pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1116(1)(B) that I have no balance sheet, statement of operations, or cash-flow statement,” it further states….