Judge to audit if conspiracy theorist’s bankruptcy auction was fair, which could delay buying process for satire site

“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” the judge, Christopher Lopez, said in an emergency hearing on Thursday afternoon. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

Oh bullshit.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Where exactly are you hearing all this? Sources please.

    But the trustee who oversaw the auction said he followed the judge’s rules laid out in a September order, which made the overbidding round optional.

    The exact bid amount offered by the Onion for InfoWars remains unknown, but it has been reported it was lower than First United American’s bid of $3.5m. The Onion’s offer was seen as a better deal because some of the related Sandy Hook families agreed to forgo a portion of the sale proceeds to help pay off Jones’s other creditors.

    It was reported on Thursday that the Onion’s purchase of InfoWars received support from families of Sandy Hook shooting victims, to whom Jones owes $1.4bn in defamation judgments after he falsely claimed the 2012 school massacre was a hoax.