Infowars host Alex Jones accomplished two days of depositions in a defamation lawsuit filed by households of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School capturing, court docket paperwork filed Wednesday present.
Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis final week discovered Jones in contempt for failing twice to attend depositions on March 23 and 24.
She ordered him to pay each day fines amounting to tens of hundreds of {dollars} for daily he did not present the sworn testimony. According to Wednesday’s submitting, Jones paid $75,000 — $25,000 on Friday and $50,000 on Monday.
Jones sat for depositions on Tuesday and Wednesday, going “above and beyond” Bellis’ order by sitting “beyond normal hours for the deposition to afford the plaintiffs’ counsel a full and fair opportunity to question him,” according to the filing from Jones’ lawyer, Norm Pattis.
Jones, in a video posted on the Infowars website Tuesday, said he sat with a plaintiff’s lawyer in Connecticut for 10 hours — a period he described as “subsequent degree, like a hallucination or one thing.”
Jones added that he was “demonized” however supplied “every” document he was asked about.
“Here’s the big takeaway, and I’ll just admit it,” Jones mentioned to the digital camera. “I could’ve done a better job on Sandy Hook. Some of the anomalies that we reported on were not accurate, and I admitted it years before I was sued.”
Pattis, who appeared in the video, famous that Jones was requested questions not associated to the Sandy Hook capturing that struck him as a “broad, wholesale attack” on Jones and his website.
“From time to time, tempers flared in the room,” Pattis mentioned Tuesday.
“Alex wasn’t perfect today, but he did a good job.”
Pattis didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Jones’ depositions — which he mentioned he missed due to well being issues — had been for a coming trial to find out how a lot he ought to pay the eight victims’ households and an FBI agent who sued him over his claims that the college capturing in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012, was a hoax. Twenty first graders and 6 educators had been killed in the capturing.
The plaintiffs say they have been harassed and suffered dying threats over Jones’ claims. Last yr, Bellis discovered Jones liable for damages in the defamation go well with.
