The Onion’s offer to buy right-wing provocateur Alex Jones’ Infowars platform, as part of a liquidation to pay off his debts to the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, is on hold until a bankruptcy judge can approve it.
Houston bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Lopez at a hearing Monday rejected a request from Jones for an emergency temporary restraining order to stop a bankruptcy trustee or those from The Onion from taking over Infowars assets, saying it wasn’t necessary since he hasn’t entered an order allowing such a change.
Lopez said he’s ready to consider objections as early as next week from Jones, a losing bidder, or others who have concerns with the transparency of the auction or the structure of the winning bid. The decision will determine whether Jones can remain on air on the platform he’s been broadcasting on for roughly 25 years.
It won’t happen. The judge is just going through due process. There hasn’t been any new news about this case since last week.
There won’t be anything new until later this week. The posted article is old info.
This article was posted on the 25th shortly after the hearing ended.
I do agree with you that the judge is going through with due process tho, and my guess is that’s so AJ has no fallback challenges he can bring up at a later date.
The court was clear on what the trustee could do, and they had a long keash on this. IMO the Onion will win and AJ will lose.