No So Fast: Judge Blocks The Onion’s Purchase of Info Wars

A few weeks ago I reported on the liquidation and sale of Alex Jones’s possessions, including the Infowars website.

Satirical news outlet The Onion was the highest bidder, announcing that they plan to use the Infowars name to spoof conservatives.

Fate, it seems, had other plans.

A bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday that the auction for Infowars and associated assets did not result in the best bid possible.

Judge Christopher Lopez of Houston, Texas “criticized the bidding process as flawed while questioning the amount of money families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting stood to receive.”

Lopez blocked the sale of Info Wars to The Onion after two days of hearings.

For now, this means that Alex Jones can stay in his Austin, Texas Info Wars headquarters.

The Onion planned to kick him out as soon as the purchase was finalized.

The Onion’s bid for Info Wars was $1.5 million, while First American United Companies, a nutritional supplements company associated with Alex Jones, had bid $3.5 million.

The Onion’s bid was boosted to a value of $7 million by the fact that Sandy Hook parents agreed to take future earnings of the new Info Wars website in lieu of their court-ordered payout from Jones.

Jones was ordered to pay the families $1.5 billion in a case that centered around claims about the Sandy Hook shooting being a hoax, though the case never went to trial as the plaintiffs won a default judgement when Jones didn’t comply with discovery.