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submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' latest bankruptcy plan would pay Sandy Hook families a minimum total of $55 million over 10 years, a fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion awarded to the relatives in lawsuits against Jones for calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting a hoax.

The families, meanwhile, have filed their own proposal seeking to liquidate nearly all of Jones' assets, including his media company Free Speech Systems, and give the proceeds to them and other creditors.

The dueling plans, filed late Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, will be debated and challenged over the next two months, with hearings scheduled for February that will result in a final order saying how much Jones will have to pay out.

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago
[-] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

Where's Amos when you need him?

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Recovering from a gunshot, usually.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

That was actually Prax’s line, and Amos thought it was cold as hell.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

False. In that scene, Amos is explaining how people like Roma (off-screen) force kids into prostitution, and that such people deserve to be punished. This was long before Prax's badass arc.

[-] girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

The Expanse!!! Whoop whoop!!!

[-] oDDmON@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Publicly broadcast face punching could suppress future incidents; ‘s worth a try.

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