Off by a couple orders of magnitude there, Alex. Setting for $55M per year for the next 30 years would work.
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The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has proposed to pay $55m over 10 years to the Sandy Hook families who sued him for spreading lies that the 2012 school massacre in Connecticut, one of the worst in American history, was a hoax.
According to the 30-page plan submitted on Friday, Jones offered to pay a lump sum of at least $5.5m a year, to be shared among the plaintiffs.
Jones filed for bankruptcy last year, but a judge ruled in October that those protections do not apply over findings of “willful and malicious” conduct.
The ruling also allowed the families to demand payment for the rest of Jones’s working life.
After 26 people, including children and teachers, died in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, Jones spent years spreading misinformation about the massacre.
He claimed the school shooting was a hoax targeting Americans’ firearms and that the victims’ families were “crisis actors”.
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Why should the plaintiffs agree to settle at all? Looks like they already proposed an extremely generous settlement
