Alex Jones...still trash

Last year, conspiracy theorist and extremist broadcaster Alex Jones was ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion in judgments to families of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. A series of court rulings ordered the payments after Jones spread false conspiracy theories about their children’s deaths. While Jones still hasn’t paid his victims a cent, he spent $93,000 on himself in July, according to bankruptcy filings reported by the Associated Press.

Jones has been paying his wife $15,000 a month. In July, he spent $7,900 on housekeeping, $6,300 on meals and entertainment, and $6,700 on a second home, the AP reports.

“If anything, I like to go to nice restaurants. That is my deal. I like to go on a couple of nice vacations a year, but I think I pretty much have earned that in this fight,” Jones said on his Infowars show.

Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the victims said the families will continue to fight: “It is disturbing that Alex Jones continues to spend money on excessive household expenditures and his extravagant lifestyle when that money rightfully belongs to the families he spent years tormenting,” Mattei said.

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Up to the families then to issue writs of none-payment and request sequestration of assets equal to the value of.
Takes about ten minutes in a UK County Court.
Especially if it's clear the guilty party has made no effort to adhere to the Court order already in existence.
Failure to comply with a County Court judgement here results in attachment of earnings orders and seizing of all assets in either Respondents or Respondents company names; the guilty party is banned from the very thing that caused the trouble in the first place (social media in this case)
If this isn't happening in the U.S. you have to ask why.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@Picklebobble2 Oh, you optimistic, character-driven soul. You think that's how justice works, but you haven't toured the labyrinthine morass that is the US Justice system. Here in America we don't enforce penalties very well, have created a highway of absolute dead traffic with motions, delays and requests. But there are so many in the nation with legitimate cases, frivolous cases and those awaiting sentencing for things like taking part in a protest, owning marijuana, collecting rainwater, failing to delete a facebook account by order or a judge who arrested an entire court when he couldn't identify a ringing phone. 14 people ended up in jail. These are exceptional, but all true.

We don't respect dates in the US justice system. That's really just a placeholder that will almost definitely change. We also believe that more crime needs a harder fist. The threats of prison are constant. Never do we think of ways to make a problem better or salvage the best things possible. We seek to penalize, to punish, to "be hard on crime." We throw people into a gladiator's arena for years and then expect them to know how to act in polite society.

Yes, a judge should look at this case immediately and correct the terms to reflect justice and resolution of the case, but we're busy with paperwork.

https://nextluxury.com/funny/funny-reasons-to-go-to-jail/

Northwest · M

I'm puzzled. How is this allowed? OJ Simpson was reduced to begging as a result of the civil judgment against him.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@Northwest I honestly don't know. I tried to find reasoning that would allow this, but it's hard. Unless the court lazily ordered that he could maintain his own lifestyle, he should be in jail for violating these terms. Not how it works, but it ought to.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@Graylight celebrity is the only thing I can think of.

LeopoldBloom · M

Obtaining a judgment is one thing, enforcing it is another. Jones is wealthy and it should be possible to attach his assets, but that requires a court order. The families will win eventually but it will take time.

Lostpoet · M

True, I don't know why someone would try to make money off of another person's suffering.

pancakeslam · 41-45, M

he could probably move his money into an offshore bank account and withdraw it as needed. Keeping his money not tied up in liquid assets. I'm no accountant but I'm sure he has one. He'll fight to keep every last cent as long as he can.

Renaci · 36-40

It seems the government is loosing it's teeth to enforce its own laws anymore. That is why the continental congress failed. No money to pay the army. No army = no teeth. It is also the reason the league of nations failed. No why to enforce international law.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@Renaci We're shocked when we hear of other nations promising a harsh penalty and then actually and efficiently carrying it out. A prison term of 12 years should mean 12 years.

We're like the parents who talk about consequences all the time but never enforce them. When we do, we pick on the least among us or anyone who seems somehow different. I don't agree with all the laws of this country. But if they do and they're just, there's no reason not to enforce them.

Better yet, less automatic time locked in a hellish environment and the full sentence served in a rehabilitation community, where men learn to be responsible, mentally healthy, and come to understand what being part of a society means. This model has worked remarkably well in other nations.

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