Alex Jones Sent Child Porn In Sandy Hook Lawsuit, Lawyers Allege

NEWTOWN, CT — Alex Jones might find himself in legal hot water after a recent on-air tirade concerning the lawsuit filed against him by family members of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Lawyers representing the families are asking a Superior Court judge to review Jones’ recent on-air broadcast.

Jones’ rant came after it was discovered that child pornography images had been sent to emails associated with Infowars. Thousands of emails were turned over en-masse during the lawsuit discovery process and a few were found to contain the lewd material.

Lawyers with Koskoff Koskoff and Bieder firm representing the families took Jones’ statements as threats and are asking the court to intervene. Judge Barbara Bellis said in a court order that lawyers should be prepared to address the matter at a Tuesday hearing.

At one point during the broadcast Jones pounded on a picture of lawyer Chris Mattei who is affiliated with the Koskoff firm.

The Koskoff firm hired data consultants to load the files into a database so they could be reviewed, according to a legal filing. During that process the consultants came across an image that appeared to contain child pornography. The documents were turned over to the FBI and the FBI found that a number of illegal images had been sent to Infowars email addresses.

Koskoff lawyers said that if the Jones defendants had done minimal due diligence they would’ve found the lewd material themselves.

Jones’ lawyer Norm Pattis appeared on Jones’ Infowars show and said that about 57,000 emails were turned over during the discovery process.

“In 12 of them there were embedded images of child pornography. As it turns out those emails were never opened, the images were never opened, there is no evidence that anybody here or anyone affiliated with you or you ever searched them,” Pattis said on Jones’ show.

Pattis said that he spoke with federal prosecutors and they regard Jones as a victim and not a suspect. The emails contained malware and had hostile intent, Pattis said.

Jones went into an on-air rant about the matter and offered a $1 million reward to whoever finds out who sent the child pornography files.

“You’re trying to set me up with child porn, I’ll get your [expletive]. One million dollars, one million dollars you little gang members. One million dollars to put your head on a pike. One million dollars, [expletive]. I’m going to get your [expletive], you understand me now,” Jones said during the broadcast.

Later on in the broadcast Jones references Mattei.

“I want them to track it back to you know who,” Jones said.

“You are not a suspect, you are not a target, you are not a person of interest. You are a victim and that is the story here,” Pattis said.

“I wonder who the person of interest is,” Jones said. At that moment the camera pans to a photo of Mattei.

“Look you are showing Chris Mattei’s photograph on here,” Pattis said.

“Oh no, that was an accidental cut, he’s a nice Obama boy” Jones said.

Later on Pattis said he wasn’t going to engage in a personal attack against Mattei and that he wanted to find out who sent the child pornography files to Infowars. He also said that he’d be shocked if the opposing counsel somehow sent the files to Infowars.

Several family members of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims filed the defamation suit against Jones and his company Infowars in May 2018. The lawsuit alleges that Jones insisted the shooting was a "false flag" operation and parents were "crisis actors." Several family members have been subject to death threats and other extreme harassment after the 2012 shooting which claimed the lives of 20 children and six educators.