Alex Jones’ personal expenses are frustrating families who are trying to collect the $1.5 billion in judgments against him for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
The conspiracy theorist and Infowars host has been paying his own wife, Erika Wulff Jones, $15,000 a month, according to the most recent expense report he filed in his bankruptcy case — payments called “fraudulent transfers” by lawyers of some of the shooting victims. families.
Jones says they are obligatory under a prenuptial agreement.
In July, Jones spent $7,900 on cleanup.
He spent more than $6,300 on meals and entertainment, not including groceries, which totaled almost $3,400, or about $850 per week.
A second home, his Texas lake house, cost him nearly $6,700 that month, including maintenance and property taxes, while his vehicles and boats cost him another $5,600, including insurance, maintenance and fuel.
His total personal expenses in July were $93,000, up from nearly $75,000 in April, not including legal fees and other costs from his court cases, according to bankruptcy filings.
The conspiracy theorist and Infowars host has been paying his own wife, Erika Wulff Jones, $15,000 a month, according to the most recent expense report he filed in his bankruptcy case.
“It is disturbing that Alex Jones continues to spend money on excessive household expenses and his extravagant lifestyle when that money rightfully belongs to the families he spent years tormenting,” said Christopher Mattei, an attorney for the families in Connecticut.
“Families are increasingly concerned and will continue to challenge these matters in court.”
In an Aug. 29 court filing, attorneys for the families said that if Jones does not reduce his personal expenses to a “reasonable” level, they will ask the judge to prohibit him from “further squandering his estate assets,” appoint a fiduciary to monitor your expenses, or dismiss the bankruptcy case.
On his Infowars show Tuesday, Jones said he’s not doing anything wrong.
“In any case, I like going to good restaurants. That’s my deal. “I like to take a couple of good vacations a year, but I think I’ve earned it in this fight,” he said, urging his audience to donate money toward his legal expenses.
The Sandy Hook families won nearly $1.5 billion in judgments against Jones last year in lawsuits over his repeated promotion of a false theory that the school shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut , It never happened.
Relatives of the victims testified at trials about being harassed and threatened by Jones believers, who sent threats and even confronted the grieving families in person, accusing them of being “crisis actors” whose children never existed.
However, raising the astronomical sum is proving to be a long battle.
When Jones filed for bankruptcy, it halted the families’ efforts to collect the $1.5 billion in state courts while a federal bankruptcy court judge decides how much money Jones can actually pay his creditors.
Lawyers for the families have said in court that they have found it difficult to track Jones’ finances because of the numerous companies he owns and the multiple agreements between those corporate entities.
Meanwhile, Jones continues broadcasting.
He and his media company, Free Speech Systems, are seeking court approval for a new contract that would pay him $1.5 million a year plus incentive bonuses, up from his current salary of $520,000 a year.
The company also filed for bankruptcy last year.
On Infowars, Jones said Tuesday that he is more than $1 million in debt.
Alex Jones’ personal expenses are frustrating families who are trying to collect the $1.5 billion in judgments against him for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax.
If he gets the pay raise, he said, he would have about $300,000 a year left after paying his legal bills.
“With all my expenses and things, that’s nothing,” he said.
“And that doesn’t matter to me. “I’m wearing a t-shirt that I bought about eight years ago and I love it.”
Financial documents filed by Jones and his bankruptcy attorneys say his personal net worth is around $14 million.
His assets include a home valued at $2.6 million, a $2.2 million ranch, a $1.8 million lake house, a $500,000 rental property, and four vehicles and two boats. worth more than $330,000 in total.
Jones had nearly $800,000 in his bank accounts on July 31, court documents show.
Meanwhile, Free Speech Systems continues to make money selling nutritional supplements, survival supplies and other merchandise that Jones promotes on Infowars, generating nearly $2.5 million in revenue in July alone, according to Jones’ financial reports, which signed under penalty of perjury.
The company’s expenses totaled about $2.4 million that month.
Meanwhile, some of the Sandy Hook families have another lawsuit pending that claims Jones hid millions of dollars in an attempt to protect his wealth.
One of Jones’ attorneys called the allegations “ridiculous.”
Jones, who is appealing $1.5 billion in court awards against him, appeared for depositions in his bankruptcy case Tuesday and Wednesday in his hometown of Austin, Texas, where Infowars is based.
On his show Tuesday, he denied any financial wrongdoing.
“I’m not Lex Luthor…when it comes to finances and life,” he said. “I mean, I’m a sincere guy. “I am a do-gooder at Mayberry RFD.”
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