November 21, 2024
As satirical media company The Onion prepares to defend its offer to buy Alex Jones' right-wing conspiracy show, Infowars, it is relying on the idea that sometimes, the highest offer is not the best one for creditors, experts told Law360.
November 19, 2024
Right-wing media fabulist Alex Jones asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to stop the sale of his Infowars website to satirical news publisher The Onion, arguing that the winning bid violated the court's bidding procedures order.
November 18, 2024
The Alex Jones-affiliated backup Chapter 7 auction bidder for Jones' right-wing website Infowars asked a Texas bankruptcy judge Monday to disqualify the winning bid from The Onion, a satirical news website, arguing that the bid did not follow the auction procedures.
November 15, 2024
As right-wing media fabulist Alex Jones awaits the final outcome of an auction for his InfoWars website, he's being led through Chapter 7 by a team of attorneys from Elliott Thomason & Gibson LLP and Jordan & Ortiz PC.
November 14, 2024
Satirical news website The Onion has purchased Alex Jones' Infowars at a Chapter 7 bankruptcy auction, according to a Thursday announcement by the firm representing Sandy Hook shooting survivors who won a $1.4 billion defamation award over his claims the massacre was a hoax.
April 28, 2023
Lawyers and restructuring advisers used by the bankrupt parent company of Alex Jones' InfoWars podcast business will be able to retain their prepetition fee deposits after a Texas federal judge approved a settlement of their fee claims Friday.
April 06, 2023
Right-wing conspiracy peddler Alex Jones' media network Free Speech Systems LLC cannot pay prepetition retainers to the law firm Shannon & Lee LLP or bankruptcy advisers Schwartz Associates LLC, in part because the court denied their employment applications, the U.S. Trustee's Office said Thursday.
November 15, 2022
The U.S. Trustee's Office and others on Monday asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to turn down a request for more than $667,000 in fees by the rejected bankruptcy counsel and restructuring adviser for Alex Jones' podcast network Free Speech Systems.
October 07, 2022
Alliance Health's liquidating trustee alleges a law firm helped a $100 million fraud scheme, the Alex Jones-controlled Free Speech Systems needs a new leader, and satellite operator Intelsat SA escapes from a $400 million contract dispute. This is the week in bankruptcy.
October 04, 2022
Alex Jones' podcast network has filed an emergency application in Texas bankruptcy court seeking to retain a retired CPA as its chief restructuring officer in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, saying the company urgently needs someone to take over day-to-day operations after the court rejected its prior choice for a restructuring officer.