Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused of hiding money from Sandy Hook families
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After claiming for years that he does not have the money to pay even a small fraction of the $1.3 billion he owes Sandy Hook families who won a defamation case against him, Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is now facing allegations that he engaged in a “flurry” of fraudulent transfers of some $5 million in cash, cars and property to his family members.
U.S. bankruptcy trustee Christopher Murray has filed three suits in federal bankruptcy court in Texas, asking the judge to undo what he calls a scheme “bearing the classic hallmarks… of actual fraudulent intent,” and to return the assets to Jones’s bankruptcy estate so they can eventually be distributed to the families.
“[Jones] understood he was facing massive liabilities” and he went to “extraordinary lengths” to try to protect his assets, including “sham transactions” to move assets beyond the reach of creditors, Murray wrote in court papers.
Attorneys for the families have long been accusing Jones of “shenanigans” to hide money.
“Alex Jones’s entire career has been built on lies so it is no surprise he would lie to hide his assets. He won’t get away with it, said Chris Mattei, one of the lawyers. “The families we represent are as determined as ever to enforce the jury’s verdict and he will never outrun it.”
Attorneys for Jones – and his father and ex-wife – did not immediately respond to requests for comment. His ex-wife called the lawsuits “harassment,” according to the Associated Press.
The Trustee’s lawsuits say Jones transferred assets to his ex-wife, Erika Wulff Jones, his father, Dr. David R. Jones, and a trust for his children; Mrs. Jones, Dr. Jones and the trust are also named as defendants. For example, the suits allege Jones transferred some $1.5 million in cash to his wife, purporting to owe her money under a premarital agreement that the trustee says was never actually ratified; he is accused of selling part of a Texas ranch to his father for $10 and back-dating papers to make it appear as if it happened years prior, which would have meant it was safe from collections; he allegedly paid more than $500,000 in cash to his father, trying to pass it off as “reimbursements,” and gifted his father three luxury vehicles in a transfer that “was so disorganized and harried” that Murray says Jones didn’t even know which cars they were.
Content retrieved from: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/18/nx-s1-5436807/conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-accused-of-hiding-money-from-sandy-hook-families.
