InfoWars’ Alex Jones now has the complete weight of a $45.2 million wonderful sitting on his balding head after a jury decided the person who made a fortune broadcasting conspiracies and lies should lastly pay for them. The jury announced the punitive damages after 4 hours of deliberation Friday.

This new wonderful is along with one other $4.1 million he was ordered to pay by the jury Thursday in compensatory damages to the households of youngsters killed in 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School. Jones repeatedly claimed the taking pictures was a “false flag” staged by gun management proponents. The plaintiffs on this case initially requested for $150 million.

The court docket introduced in forensic economist Bernard Pettingill to debate Jones’ web value, largely earned by the InfoWars on-line channel and retailer. Pettingill advised the jury that Jones is supervisor or agent for someplace round 9 personal entities that aren’t publicly traded. Apparently, based mostly on all that info, Pettingill mentioned Jones might have been making within the ballpark of $53.2 million a yr between September 2015 and December 2018. Jones has paid himself round $6 million a yr, equalling $18 million over three years, the economist estimated.

In impact, Pettingill mentioned Jones might have made much more cash after he was deplatformed from social websites like Twitter again in 2018. The economist estimated the conspiratorial broadcaster’s web value mixed with the worth of his most important firm, Free Speech Systems, at between $135 million and $270 million.

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Jones doesn’t just sell his own brand of nonsense, but also peddles supplements through his site. Questions of his net worth have come up before. Earlier this year, he tried to declare Chapter 11 “reorganization” bankruptcy after losing another defamation case in Connecticut because he did not show up to court. Last week, he declared bankruptcy for Free Speech Systems as well. In that April bankruptcy filing, InfoWars was listed as having assets in the $0-$50,000 range and liabilities between $1 and $10 million. The Huffington Post wrote earlier this year that Jones’ supplement and survival gear peddling made the company $165 million over three years. Earlier this week, Jones said of the bankruptcy filing: “that’s why they do this, to deliver this giant judgement on already-guilty Alex Jones that they hope is too big to even get a bond on. Well once you declare bankruptcy, it’s all there in the court.”

But there’s also a consideration of how his many other holding companies like PLJR Holding and AEJ Austin Holdings LLC have potentially helped move money away Free Speech Systems, as has been alleged by the Sandy Hook parents. Pettingill said it’s hard to determine how much Jones is worth because of how spread out his wealth is, but, after Jones was ruled liable in the Sandy Hook cases, the conspiracy theorist started moving $11,000 per day into these shell companies.

“The numbers don’t add up,” the forensic economist told the court.

The InfoWars founder made almost $4 million a week after being booted from social media, according to one of the text messages his lawyer accidentally sent to the plaintiffs’ counsel. One of the plaintiff’s attorneys, Wesley Todd Ball, called InfoWars a “media empire” and said Jones would just keep lying if the jury didn’t financially kneecap it. Ball said before deliberations that the $4.1 million fine levied against Jones was “less than 2% of what we know” of Jones’ total wealth.

“You think he just randomly stumbled backwards into $4 million, in one week?” Ball said. “When this man talks, he lies.”

Though Jones has admitted that the shooting was “100% real,” the case has unveiled just how much Jone’s constant lies about Sandy Hook have hurt the families of its victims. Parent Neil Heslin, who’s 6-year-old son was killed in 2012, said Alex Jones’ conspiracies made life a “residing hell” saying that his residence had been shot at and that he had discovered bullet casings in his driveway. Attorneys for the mother and father argued that Jones’ rhetoric painted a goal on mother and father’ backs for the hundreds of avid InfoWars conspiracists.