The court documents show that Alex Jones, theorist on the hook for more than $1 billion because of lies he spread about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, has filed for bankruptcy.
In order to seek Chapter 11 protection, the Infowars host filed boilerplate bankruptcy documents in Texas, which he claimed was worth $1 million to $10 million and had debts of $1 billion to $10 billion.
The filing came weeks after a Connecticut jury ordered him to pay $965 million to the families of eight Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and an FBI agent who responded to the attack for the suffering he caused by spreading lies on his platforms about the mass shooting.
The bill was brought to a staggering $1.44 billion after Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis imposed punitive damages of $473 million for promoting false conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook.
This is a developing story.