AUSTIN (KXAN) – The longtime corporate attorney of controversial radio host Alex Jones was taken to court Wednesday for allegations that he intentionally misrepresented Jones’ business InfoWars LLC over the course of his defamation lawsuits.
Jones has lost several defamation lawsuits – including one last August – after claiming the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, which left 20 children and six adults dead, was a hoax. Jones claimed the mass shooting at the Connecticut elementary school was staged by crisis actors to justify the government taking away firearms. In total, Jones has been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion so far.
Attorney Mark Bankston, who represented two parents of a child killed at Sandy Hook, filed the motion against Eric Taube, saying Taube acted in bad faith during the lawsuit and made multiple knowingly false statements in court. Bankston said Taube should be disciplined and pay sanctions for the alleged intentionally false statements.
Bankston and his team allege Taube said in court that InfoWars, LLC, had no assets, personnel, or operations and had nothing to do with the InfoWars intellectual property.
“Suddenly, InfoWars sent themselves into bankruptcy and did it by making claims that were 180 degrees opposite of what Mr. Taube had said. Once we started investigating that, we found out that Mr. Taube was actually personally involved in setting up these businesses,” Bankston said.
It is Jones’ other company Free Speech Systems, LLC, which is thought to...
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