Bitcoin Donations Requested on Infowars Go Directly to Alex Jones, Testimony Confirms

A corporate representative for Infowars testified Wednesday morning that cryptocurrency donations requested on air go directly to Alex Jones personally. Brittany Paz, an attorney who was appointed corporate representative for Infowars in January, testified in a civil defamation lawsuit in Connecticut, the second of three that will determine how much he owes the Sandy Hook families. The lawsuits are over Jones and Infowars repeatedly calling Sandy Hook “a hoax,” even though Jones has said he no longer believes that to be the case — a change of position that roughly coincided with his extremely sued.

Since Jones has already done that lost the Sandy Hook cases by default, these trials are intended to determine damages, not liability. They also provide a running window into the business of Infowars and Free Speech Systems, its parent company. (Both devices are controlled by Jones and for all functional purposes are the same thing; Free Speech Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July.)

Paz is speaking as Infowars’ corporate representative in the Connecticut bankruptcy case, although she has never worked for Infowars and could not answer several basic questions about the company, including how many studios it has. (She testified that she previously worked for Norm Pattis, Jones and Infowars’ lead attorney in this case.) Plaintiffs’ lawyers asked several pointed questions about Infowars’ revenue and traffic today, trying to drive home the point that Jones and Infowars continued to focus on Sandy Hook over several years because it made them money.

In response to questions from plaintiffs’ attorney Chris Mattei, Paz acknowledged that cryptocurrency donations requested on air go “directly to Alex Jones personally,” in Mattei’s words — something he doesn’t share with his audience.

“He doesn’t tell anybody where it goes or what he does with it,” Paz testified.

Mattei replied, “He’s telling his audience that the donations go to Free Speech Systems, right?” (Paz replied that she didn’t know if he said that or not, but he certainly has.)

Jones has made increasingly impassioned on-air pleas for donations, saying they are necessary to keep Infowars on the air, and has repeatedly filed lawsuits against him as a globalist plot to silence him and drive him out of the business. sHatewatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Lawsuit, reported in May that an anonymous donor gave Jones $8 million in Bitcoin in a little less than a month. That donor has still not been identified.