Infowars Bankruptcy Contends With Alex Jones’ Defamation Verdict

Infowars’ parent company will likely face calls for greater scrutiny of its bankruptcy now that a Texas jury has ordered it and its founder, Alex Jones, to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim for falsely claiming the school shooting was a hoax.

Heightened scrutiny may include expanded trustee powers, examining the validity of the debt owed by Jones’ company, and potentially forming a committee representing the victim families suing Jones.

The Texas jury last week ordered the conspiracy theorist and Free Speech Systems LLC, the parent company of his website InfoWars, to ...