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A jury in Austin, Texas, decided Friday that Alex Jones should pay more than 45 million dollars in damages to the parents of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting over his promotion of false conspiracy theories.
Alex Jones tried to answer questions about his text messages from Mark Bankston. The Austin American-Statesman is in a pool.
During the trial, Jones claimed that a penalty of more than $2 million wouldsink his media outlet.
The value of Jones and his company was estimated by a forensic economist on Friday.
Jones has been found liable for defamation in a case brought by several families.
The parents of Jesse Heslin, who was killed in the 2012 massacre, asked for at least $150 million in damages. Despite years of suggesting that the shooting was a hoax, Jones admitted during the trial that the shooting was actually real. Jones was found guilty of defamation by default last year after spending four years ignoring requests to turn over documents.
The biggest bombshell of the trial came Wednesday, when Mark Bankston revealed that Jones' legal team accidentally sent him two years of records from Jones' phone, which showed he sent texts and emails referencing Sandy Hook multiple times. Bankston accused Jones of perjury after he testified that he wasn't aware of any texts or emails regarding Sandy Hook. Jones' phone records have been requested by the House.
The parents of the Sandy Hook shooting victim were ordered by a court to pay more than four million dollars.
According to Alex Jones' lawyers, they forwarded his "damning text" to opposing counsel.
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