Texas Judge Orders Infowars Assets Turned Over to Receiver for Sale to Pay Sandy Hook Families

The judgment could revive The Onion’s stalled $1.75 million bid for the Infowars brand and property.

Infowars founder Alex Jones takes photos at a hearing to examine foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms before the Intelligence Committee at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 5, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

A Texas state judge has ordered that Infowars’ parent company be placed in receivership, paving the way for its assets to be sold to help satisfy more than $1 billion in defamation judgments owed by its founder, Alex Jones, to families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.

At an Aug. 13 hearing in Travis County’s 459th District Court, Judge Maya Guerra Gamble announced she was granting a post-judgment motion to appoint a receiver over Free Speech Systems, parent company of Infowars, according to the court’s civil docket, additional reporting from NPR, and remarks by Jones on his show.