new sandyhook info

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it continues

this is the real fake news when sleezy people can pull this shit and the worse part is they are believe by gullible others

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alex-jones-hit-with-sanctions-by-judge-in-sandy-hook-lawsuit/ar-AAD4y7M?li=BBnb7Kz

Alex Jones hit with sanctions by judge in Sandy Hook lawsuit
By Oliver Darcy and Lauren del Valle, CNN Business  10 hrs ago

A Connecticut judge on Tuesday sanctioned right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for suggesting that a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, who are suing the InfoWars founder for his past claims that the 2012 shooting was staged, tried to frame him with child pornography.

The ruling, handed down from Bridgeport Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis, came after attorneys representing several Sandy Hook families in their lawsuit against Jones filed a motion on Monday asking the judge to review footage of Jones lambasting one of the attorneys in a Friday segment.

Bellis called Jones' behavior on the broadcast "indefensible," "unconscionable," and "possibly criminal behavior."

Bellis sanctioned Jones by denying the defense the opportunity to pursue special motions to dismiss moving forward in the lawsuit. The court will also award attorneys fees and filing fees to the Sandy Hook families' lawyers related to the issue that Jones went off about in his broadcast: child pornography that Jones' team inadvertently turned over to the plaintiffs.

Jones is being sued by families of Sandy Hook victims in both Texasand Connecticut courts over his past claims that the 2012 shooting was staged. He has since acknowledged that the shooting was real. At the hearing, a proposed trial date of November 2020 was
settled on by both sides and agreed to by the judge.

Jones suggested on a broadcast last Friday that an attorney for the Sandy Hook families tried to frame him by planting child pornography in emails that Jones' team then turned over to the plaintiffs as part of the discovery process. He later backed off the claim.

In their Monday court filing, the plaintiffs said they discovered "numerous images of child pornography" in the cache of discovery documents Jones provided them and immediately contacted the FBI.

The plaintiffs, however, noted the images "had apparently been sent to InfoWars email addresses."

In other words, it appeared a person or persons sent the images of child pornography to InfoWars email addresses and then, as part of the discovery process, those emails with the images were turned over to the plaintiffs.

It did not appear that Jones or anyone on his team solicited or even had knowledge of those images. Jones' attorney, Norman Pattis, said on an InfoWars broadcast that the FBI was treating Jones as a victim in the case, describing the emails that included the images of child pornography as "very hostile" toward him.

"I spoke to federal prosecutors last week," Pattis said on the broadcast. "They report that there is no indication anyone at InfoWars knowingly possessed child pornography."

In the Monday court filing, the plaintiffs added that it did not appear Jones' team had "engaged in even minimal due diligence" and "actually reviewed the materials before production."

In one of his trademark on-air tirades, Jones suggested without evidence on his Friday show that the child pornography was part of a plot by the lawyers for the Sandy Hook families to set him up.

"And then now magically they want metadata out of hundreds of thousands of emails they got, and they know just where to go," Jones said, according to the Monday court filing. "What a nice group of Democrats. How surprising. What nice people."

Jones then mentioned a specific attorney for the Sandy Hook families, and "pound[ed] on a picture of his face," the court filing said.

In their court filing, the plaintiffs said they interpreted what Jones said as "threats against counsel ... made to a very large audience." The plaintiffs added, "The Court has an obligation to protect the attorneys, parties, and the judicial process."

On Monday night, Jones' lawyer Pattis acknowledged in a court filing that Jones "became impassioned" during Friday's broadcast, and that he "made direct reference to plaintiffs' counsel."

But Pattis said in the court filing that Jones later "issued a public apology" on a Saturday broadcast.

"I'm not saying that the lawyers for the Sandy Hook families set this up or did this," Jones said during that broadcast, which was the quote included in the Monday night court filing by Pattis.

Bellis, however, said in court on Tuesday that she was not "able to see an apology" in the broadcasts. She said in her ruling that the court had "no doubt" Jones was accusing the attorney of planting child pornography.

Jones' attorney in court for most of Tuesday, Zachary Reyland, said the behavior demonstrated by Jones was "certainly inappropriate," but he argued it did not rise to the level of a threat.

Pattis, who attended the hearing in the afternoon, said he had spoken to Jones who was "flabbergasted" at the possibility of being sanctioned. Pattis said if the attorney Jones had suggested planted child pornography was intimidated he should "be in a new line of work."

In addition to mounting legal troubles, Jones and InfoWars have been banned from nearly every major social media platform for various terms of service violations, including hate speech.

A court document submitted earlier this month in the Connecticut lawsuit against Jones shed light on some of the inner workings of InfoWars.

The depositions emphasized how lucrative it has been for Jones to sell products in his online store, and offered a glimpse into how being banned by social media companies like Facebook and Twitter has affected the business. The depositions also painted Infowars as an organization run entirely by Jones.

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Alex Jones Loses Another Legal Battle In Sandy Hook Defamation Case
Infowars was denied an appeal in the defamation case, and now it'll have to pay up.
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By Sebastian Murdock

Conspiracy theorist and lawsuit magnet Alex Jones lost another legal battle last week when a court struck down an appeal related to a defamation lawsuit against him and his fearmongering website Infowars.

Infowars and Jones are defendants in a lawsuit brought by Neil Heslin, the father of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, who was one of 20 children and six adults killed when a gunman stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. In the years since the shooting, Heslin and other Sandy Hook parents have received death threats and online harassment from followers of Jones' Infowars website, which over the years has repeatedly claimed the shooting was a hoax and the parents are "crisis actors." Infowars contributor Owen Shroyer is also named in the lawsuit.

In the latest court filing, the Texas Court of Appeals ordered Infowars to "pay all costs" related to the failed appeal that Infowars filed against Heslin, who is being represented by Mark Bankston of the Texas law firm Farrar & Ball. Previously, Heslin filed a motion of contempt in the case after the website refused to comply with a court-ordered demand to hand over internal emails and documents related to discussions about Sandy Hook.

Now the website will pay up in addition to handing over the information. As Right Wing Watch first pointed out:

Lawyers for Infowars argued that because defendants had appeared in court regarding their motion to dismiss, they were not required to comply with the discovery process. The Texas Court of Appeals disagreed with Infowars' interpretation of Texas law and tossed the appeal. 

Currently, nine family members of loved ones who died in the shooting are suing Jones, who previously tried and failed to get a defamation lawsuit brought on by parents Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa dismissed.

In March, video deposition of Jones was released that saw him in the hot seat as he attempted to answer questions about his many falsehoods regarding the shooting. It did not go well for him.

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Used to listen to Alex.  Finally got tired of his ranting.  Much like politicians everywhere.

Bottom line for me is that there is a lot of oddities with this whole Sandyhook fiasco.  Parents just don't act the way these folks did when they have lost a child, and that medical coroner still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Probably never know the whole truth.

[Irene]

Used to listen to Alex.  Finally got tired of his ranting.  Much like politicians everywhere.

Bottom line for me is that there is a lot of oddities with this whole Sandyhook fiasco.  Parents just don't act the way these folks did when they have lost a child, and that medical coroner still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Probably never know the whole truth.

MEs, as a rule, are pretty weird people.

[Shasta56]

ME's have to cut up dead people to determine a cause of death.  That would tend to make one weird after a time.  Nurses aren't quite as weird, but we have been known to ruin dinner table conversations, quite unintentionally. 
As far as Sandy Hook being a hoax, why would they have demolished and rebuilt the school, if no compelling reason existed?  The parents?  A shock like that does weird things to people.  PTSD is a very real possibility.  And on camera, you tend to try to hold it together to avoid ugly crying on international television.
On a related subject, a lot of people think the theater in Aurora should have been demolished.  I agree.  And the psychiatrist at University Hospital should have shared pertinent information that could have prevented James Holmes playing out his delusion.  He was a documented danger to himself and others.  Oh, and the Arapahoe County D.A. that pushed for the death penalty?  He was a grandstanding idiot that dragged everything out unnecessarily.