The trustee appointed to oversee the liquidation of right-wing provocateur Alex Jones’ assets doesn’t have direct authority to sell the property of his Infowars media platform, a Justice Department unit told a Houston bankruptcy court.
A motion by Christopher R. Murray, the Chapter 7 trustee for Jones’ estate, to employ a sales broker to wind down the assets of Infowars parent company Free Speech Systems LLC should be rejected, the US Trustee’s office told the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in a court filing Tuesday.
The Jones estate, which Murray now controls, has a 100% membership ...
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