Alex Jones is currently trying to funnel money into his father’s dietary supplement business

A Texas bankruptcy court judge brought Infowars back from the brink of death on Friday, a surprising ruling about the tycoon’s scheme Alex Jones tried to use it to—naturally—make more money. This time, Jones was promoting a dietary supplement company owned by his father.

Judge Christopher M. Lopez issued a split ruling last week, saying Jones could follow the plan his lawyers had requested and liquidate most of his assets to pay the nearly The $1.5 billion he had to pay to the families of children and employees killed at Sandy Hook after repeatedly calling the mass shooting a “hoax.”

Although Jones Default is lost In defamation cases brought by the Sandy Hook family in both Connecticut and Texas, the families have yet to see a penny owed to them; Friday’s hearing was part of a long-awaited trial for the man they say was the biggest source of lies about their dead children and hatred , threats and harassment directed at their families.

But the judge rejected a bankruptcy plan that would have liquidated Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Infowars, the 25-year-old media empire that made Jones a leading face of American conspiracism. The network will last for now, although it’s unclear how long. Jones responded to the crisis in his usual way: by providing supplements, although this time there was a curious twist.

As the bankruptcy proceedings dragged on—and continued—Jones used his only real talent to powerful effect, urging viewers to send money to an entity not directly owned by him, and therefore cannot be held accountable to the Sandy Hook family and him. other creditors.

In recent weeks, Jones has been promoting a new supplement website, Dr. Jones Naturals. He said it was owned by his father, David Jones, a dentist. Alex Jones urged people to spend money there in addition to or instead of at Infowars’ in-house store. “My dad is the sponsor and he has a warehouse that is not under their control, filled with products ready to be delivered to you,” Jones said on air last week. A Free Speech Systems representative also testified in court that Infowars stopped ordering supplements for its in-house store several weeks ago, predicting an impending shutdown.

What’s on offer from Dr. Jones Naturals isn’t much different than what Infowars sells itself; There are many common colloidal silver products, an age-old fake cure in the world of natural health, along with something paradoxically called Rocket Rest, a product called Top Brain, and for completionists, a set of products called Patriot Pack. There is also a package of “super silver lozenges,” which includes a photo of the product has an expiration date of 2022.

“It was clear fraud in bankruptcy court,” Chris Mattei, the Connecticut family’s attorney, told WIRED, referring to Jones directing people online to his father’s additional website. he. “He must not divert assets.”