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Judge orders hearing to review Onion's purchase of Alex Jones's InfoWars
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- jfengel 2y agoIf Musk wants to pay even more money than The Onion and the Sandy Hook families, fine. The Sandy Hook families will get the money. Though I don't know how you conduct a fair auction now that two key bidders' bids have been revealed.
- linuxftw 2y ago> 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. Sounds a lot like FUA won the auction, but the trustee is playing games. The judge ordered a public auction, the trustee and the creditors don't get to side-step the judge's order because some of them might perceive their actions to be a better outcome.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> but the trustee is playing games Not really. Trustee’s obligation is to the creditors. Some of the creditors agreed to release their claims if it went to a third party. That has monetary value.
- linuxftw 2y agoDoesn't matter, that's not what the judge had ordered. Trustees don't decide anything, the judge has the final say.
- skarz 2y ago[flagged]
- whoknew1122 2y agoCivil asset forfeiture is when law enforcement seizes property of someone suspected of a crime. Jones was sued and lost. Now his assets are being liquidated to pay off (a small part of) the judgment against him. Two entirely different concepts.
- smeeger 2y agoaaaand this will never make it to the front page and HN is yet again guilty of misleading people by rocketing pro-left narratives to the top of the front page while letting the corresponding retractions and corrections wallow in obscurity!
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoIt's on the front page right now. This is a really weird thing to get paranoid about. Alex Jones was no exemplar of conservative values, for all that he repeated some conservative talking points.