Alex Jones Bankruptcy Doesn’t Shield Infowars Assets, Judge Says

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ families are free to pursue Infowars assets to satisfy debts they’re owed, a judge said, rejecting arguments from lawyers for the company’s owner, Alex Jones, that the assets’ legal status was unclear.

The litigation pause in the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which also prevents creditor collection efforts, doesn’t apply to assets of Infowars parent Free Speech Systems LLC, Judge Christopher Lopez of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas said during a Wednesday hearing. Free Speech Systems’ own bankruptcy proceeding was dismissed last year.

The language of the June 2024 dismissal order and subsequent, related rulings is “deeply confusing,” said Jones attorney Ben Broocks of Broocks Law Firm PLLC.

Lopez expressed frustration at that comment, saying the language was “careful” to avoid any misunderstanding and suggesting that Broocks isn’t “versed in bankruptcy law.”

The families have been embroiled in lengthy legal battles with Jones, who owes more than $1 billion in judgments over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax.

Lopez’s Wednesday ruling gave the families the clarity they sought after Jones was granted a hold in late August on a state court-appointed receiver telling an appeals court that Free Speech Systems’ assets were property of Jones’ Chapter 7 estate.

The parties didn’t find it “clear that there was no automatic stay” on Free Speech Systems’ assets, said another Jones attorney, Shelby Jordan of Jordan & Ortiz PC.

The Infowars parent’s bankruptcy dismissal order didn’t convert its assets into property of Jones’ liquidating estate, Lopez said. The order deemed the assets to have “vested” as property of the estate, but it didn’t convert them, he noted.

“The words mean what they mean,” Lopez said.

Free Speech Systems’ dismissal order allowed for Jones’ liquidating trustee, Christopher Murray, to operate the company for a year, but that expired Sept. 25, Lopez said.

Lopez noted that he can’t void an order that is already on its own terms void, referring to the decision that allowed Murray to operate Free Speech. Murray has nothing to do with Free Speech Systems anymore, but still holds the equity, Lopez said.

The trustee noted that he is considering abandoning the equity, which Lopez previously said he could sell. The abandonment or sale of Free Speech Systems’ equity would take it out of the Jones estate.

The judge last year denied Murray’s attempt to sell Infowars’ assets to satirical news website The Onion and subsequently rejected a bid from First United American Cos., which has connections to Jones himself.

Jones is separately requesting that the US Supreme Court review a Connecticut court’s nearly $1.4 billion judgment against him and Infowars.

Jones Murray LLP and Porter Hedges LLP represent the trustee. Jordan & Ortiz PC and Broocks Law Firm PLLC represent Jones.

The case is In re: Alexander E. Jones, Bankr. S.D. Tex., No. 22-bk-33553, hearing 10/1/25.