The six-person state jury reached its verdict at the end of a four-week trial, in which the combative internet host and the victims’ families both said Jones’s false claims about the Newtown, Connecticut, rampage had ruined their lives.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $965-million in damages to families and an FBI agent ravaged by the Infowars founder’s lie that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax, a Connecticut jury found on Wednesday.
“You have to stand up to a bully, because bullies won’t stop, especially when being a bully makes them very, very rich,” Chris Mattei, one of the families’ lawyers, told the jury in closing arguments on 6 October. He asked the panel to return a verdict “that makes Alex Jones realise just how devastating his conduct has been”.
Testimony from an employee of Jones pegged his total earnings from the sale of dietary supplements, books and survival gear at $100-million to $1-billion since the shooting, with $810,000 in sales on a single day in 2020. The jury was asked to calculate only how much Jones owed the families and a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who responded to the shooting, because the judge had already found him liable for defamation in a separate proceeding.Jones appeared inside the courtroom on only one day, to testify under subpoena, before opting to “boycott” the proceedings.
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