A Connecticut judge is hitting InfoWars owner Alex Jones in his wallet. The radio host will have to pay $25,000 to $50,000 per day until he supplies video testimony ahead of his impending Sandy Hook defamation trial.
Jones has gone on record calling the 2012 elementary school shooting, which left 26 people, including 20 children, dead, a “hoax.” In an interview with then-NBC News reporter Megyn Kelly, Jones explained his reasoning for his statements regarding the tragedy.
“I do think there’s some coverup and some manipulation,” Jone said. “I tend to believe that children probably did die there. But then, you look at all the other evidence on the other side, I can see how other people believe that nobody died there.”
His claims have resulted in lawsuits by the parents of the kids who died and will be heading to trial later this year.
Last year, a court found him liable for damages, and Jones did offer to pay $120,000 to each plaintiff, but they declined. The Hartford Courant reports that Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis called Jones’ refusal to appear “willful” during a hearing at the deposition.
“At the conclusion of a brief hearing in Waterbury, Bellis said Jones can have her contempt order purged if he sits for two days of deposition in Connecticut,” the Hartford Courant wrote.
“In the meantime, she ordered him to as much as $50,000 a day until the depositions take place. If he fails to appear, she said she is ready to impose a variety of additional sanctions.”
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
