Bitcoin Donations Solicited on Infowars Go Directly to Alex Jones, Testimony Confirms
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A corporate representative for Infowars testified on Wednesday morning that cryptocurrency donations solicited on-air go directly to Alex Jones personally. Brittany Paz, an attorney who was designated as a corporate representative for Infowars in January, testified in a Connecticut civil defamation trial, the second of three that will determine how much he owes to Sandy Hook families. The lawsuits are over Jones and Infowars repeatedly calling Sandy Hook “a hoax,” though Jones has said he no longer believes that is the case—a change of position that coincided roughly with him getting extremely sued.
Since Jones has already lost the Sandy Hook cases by default, these trials are meant to determine damages, not liability. They’re also providing an ongoing window into the business workings of Infowars and Free Speech Systems, its parent company. (Both entities are controlled by Jones and for all functional purposes, they are the same thing; Free Speech Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July.)