Alex Jones’ $1 Billion Verdict Puts Focus on Bankruptcy Mediation

A $965 million jury verdict this week against Infowars founder Alex Jones will considerably ramp up his and Sandy Hook shooting victim families’ focus on using bankruptcy mediation to sort out available assets and payments.

Few believe Jones has $1 billion in assets to pay for the defamation judgment levied against him and his bankrupt company, Free Speech Systems, for his lies that the 2012 elementary school shooting was a hoax. Jones and Free Speech, which owns the right wing conspiracy site Infowars, face another nearly $50 million in a judgment from another defamation case in Texas.

As Jones uses ...