(CNN)Families suing Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who hosts the right-wing commentary website Infowars, rejected his offer Tuesday to settle a defamation lawsuit filed in response to his claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
Attorneys for Jones offered $120,000 each to 13 plaintiffs who sued him over his false claims about the December 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 26 dead, including 20 children.
"Mr. Jones extends his heartfelt apology for any distress his remarks caused," each offer of compromise states.
"The so-called offer is a transparent and desperate attempt by Alex Jones to escape a public reckoning under oath with his deceitful, profit-driven campaign against the plaintiffs and the memory of their loved ones lost at Sandy Hook," each of the plaintiffs' replies state.
Norm Pattis, an attorney for Jones, told CNN Tuesday he wouldn't disclose whether "more generous" offers were previously made.
"Mr. Jones has already apologized on the air. The shootings took place almost a decade ago, and were a minuscule part of Mr. Jones' programming," Pattis said in a statement. "But for this litigation, they would be a sad footnote in our recent history. Who gains by all this?"
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