Alex Jones Urges Bankruptcy Court to Restart Infowars Auction

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked a bankruptcy court to reconsider its decision ending efforts to hold an auction for the assets of his Infowars media group.

A standard Chapter 7 public auction is the best way to recover the highest return for creditors and the bankruptcy estate, he said in a motion filed Monday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Jones has been in bankruptcy for more than two years following judgments in which the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims were awarded more than $1.3 billion related to his false claims that the 2012 Connecticut massacre was a hoax.

The renewed push to restart the auction comes after families who sued Jones in a Connecticut court asked a Texas state court in October to appoint a receiver to enforce their judgment against Jones. The Texas case has since been moved to the Houston bankruptcy court, Jones said.

US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in September issued an order giving Jones’ Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee Christopher Murray control over the assets of Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems. But in February, Lopez voided that order, saying that while its purpose was to sell the assets, he no longer trusted the process. The February ruling effectively ended the asset sale process.

The Sandy Hook families last year aided Global Tetrahedron LLC, the parent company of the satirical news site the Onion, in its attempt to acquire Infowars’ assets. Lopez rejected that offer after mounting frustration, citing a lack of transparency in the initial auction.

Lopez has since rejected a push by First United American Cos. LLC, which operates ShopAlexJones.com and has offered to pay $8 million for the assets, to restart the auction process.

Jones on Monday asked the court to reconsider the February order, arguing Lopez didn’t have jurisdiction to reverse it because it’s on appeal.

While Lopez’s frustration over the previous auction process was justified, voiding his own order “creates virtually insurmountable complications and chaos of undoing events of the past 7 months,” Jones said. The more practical remedy is to order a new auction and possibly “replace the disobedient and compromised Trustee,” he said.

Jones accused the trustee and the families who hold judgments against him of manipulating the bankruptcy process to try to silence him and destroy the Infowars brand.

Attorneys for the trustee and families didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

Jones is represented by Broocks Law Firm PLLC and Jordan & Ortiz PC. The Chapter 7 trustee is represented by Jones Murray LLP and Porter Hedges LLP. The families holding judgments in Connecticut are represented by Cain & Skarnulis PLLC, Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP. The families holding judgments in Texas are represented by Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Lawson & Moshenberg PLLC, and Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry PC.

The case is Alexander E. Jones, Bankr. S.D. Tex., No. 22-33553, motion 4/28/25.