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.
The payment would also be accompanied by a percentage of his personal annual revenue, and a slice of Infowars revenue.
“This is the first time that Alex Jones has revealed any sort of plan to pay the families back for the harm he caused them,” said Avi Moshenberg, a lawyer for family members who sued Jones in Texas.
In November, the families’ lawyers proposed a settlement of at least $8.5m annually for 10 years.
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”. »
