Alex Jones Is Ordered to Pay Another $472 Million Over Sandy Hook
- Amount includes nearly $322 million for the victims’ lawyers
- Jones already faces $1 billion verdict for lies about shooting
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Alex Jones was ordered to pay an additional $472 million in punitive damages and attorneys’ fees on top of the nearly $1 billion verdict a Connecticut jury imposed on him for spreading lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Connecticut state court judge Barbara Bellis on Thursday found that the Infowars host’s conduct merited his payment of punitive as well as the compensatory damages to the families of the victims of the 2012 school shooting, which claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators. She awarded $150 million in punitive damages as well as $321.7 million in legal fees that Jones must pay the victims’ lawyers under a one-third contingency-fee arrangement.