Gravel-headed former podcaster Alex Jones filed a lawsuit alleging a conspiracy existed between the bankruptcy trustee who oversaw and the winning bidder for Jones’s Infowars business, a partnership between the satire website The Onion and a group representing a subset of the Sandy Hook families to whom Jones owes more than $1 billion. Jones says the bankruptcy trustee, an attorney named Christopher Murray, conspired with the bidders to keep Infowars out of Jones’s control and to prevent Jones from getting back on the air.
According to The Independent, Jones claims the families, a group that had separately successfully sued Jones, promised to withdraw some financial claims against Jones as part of The Onion’s bid, effectively doubling the $1.75 million offer and outbidding a group of Jones supporters.