Judge Orders Alex Jones To Pay Legal Fees In Child Porn Claim

NEWTOWN, CT — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones learned Tuesday that his words can have financial consequences after a Superior Court judge ordered him to pay the legal costs of the lawyers representing the families of the Sandy Hook families suing him.

Judge Barbara Bellis said she had no doubt that Jones accused the plaintiff lawyers of planting child pornography in discovery material on his Infowars show, according to the News-Times.

Jones' lawyer Norm Pattis who appeared on the Infowars show when the comments were made said that Jones didn't threaten attorney Chris Mattei.

Jones' on-air 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.

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At one point during the broadcast Jones pounded on a picture of lawyer Mattei who is affiliated with the Koskoff firm. The Koskoff firm is representing family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims who are suing Jones for defamation.

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 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.