After Flipping Off Court By Ducking Deposition, Alex Jones Flips Off Sandy Hook Plaintiffs With Insulting Settlement Offer

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Conspiracy profiteer Alex Jones already managed to lose by default and royally piss off the judge in the Connecticut case brought by surviving family of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting.

In the past week alone, he presented a spurious doctor’s note, failed to show up for two scheduled depositions, and embarrassed the sh*t out of his lawyers when it turned out he was in his studio doing a live broadcast at the very moment when they were in court arguing that he was too sick to be deposed. Faced with a motion to hold him in contempt, Jones is now trying to make himself look as odious as possible with an insultingly low settlement offer to the plaintiffs, who faced years of harassment after he called them “crisis actors” on his broadcast.

More than three years after the families sued, Jones has presented each of the 13 plaintiffs with an “Offer of Compromise offering to allow said plaintiff to settle for the sum of One-Hundred Twenty-Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($120,000.00).” After hundreds of pleadings, that might not even cover the legal fees. So as an added sweetener, “Mr. Jones extends his heartfelt apology for any distress his remarks caused.”

Within a few hours, Jones’s 13 identical offers were met with 13 identical rejections.

“The so-called offer is a transparent and desperate attempt by Alex Jones to escape a public reckoning under oath with his deceitful, profit-driven campaign against the plaintiffs and the memory of their loved ones lost at Sandy Hook,” the plaintiffs wrote.

They have a different plan, and it involves an order of incarceration and fines starting at $25,000 per day and escalating to $50,000 until he shows up in Connecticut and agrees to be deposed.

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In a motion for civil contempt, the plaintiffs argue that Jones’s “strategy of obfuscation and delay tactics” has caused “profound prejudice to the plaintiffs.”

“Once again, his refusal to follow the rules of discovery defies the Court’s authority, burdens the court system, prejudices the plaintiffs, and benefits him and his codefendant companies,” they write. “Alex Jones is in contempt of court, and the Court should enter penalties and sanctions accordingly.”

Yesterday, Jones’s counsel Norm Pattis accused the plaintiffs of “pseudo-macho” tactics which show a “complete disregard for Mr. Jones’ health and border, if not cross the border, on an attempt to exacerbate Mr. Jones’ health conditions.”

“To find that Mr. Jones has acted in bad faith by displaying the stubborn behavior that the average person’s dad would display by shrugging off medical care until it was impressed upon him just how serious his condition was would gratuitously stretch the definition of bad faith beyond its reasonable limits,” he huffed indignantly.

We have not yet gotten Pattis’s response to the motion requesting contempt, but it will take some effort to top his last offering. In the meantime, Jones has proposed no alternate date for his testimony, which may or may not be indicative of his level of good faith. Perhaps he’s just too busy denouncing the globalists and calling for Dr. Fauci’s execution to comply with the court’s order.

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LAFFERTY, ERICA Et Al v. JONES, ALEX EMRIC Et Al [Docket]


Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.