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A Connecticut judge on Tuesday sanctioned right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for suggesting that a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, who are suing the InfoWars founder for his past claims that the 2012 shooting was staged, tried to frame him with child pornography.
The ruling, handed down from Bridgeport Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis, came after attorneys representing several Sandy Hook families in their lawsuit against Jones filed a motion on Monday asking the judge to...

A Connecticut judge slapped InfoWars founder Alex Jones with sanctions Tuesday after he said he was being framed with child porn by a lawyer representing the Sandy Hook families, who are suing the right-wing conspiracy theorist for his past claims suggesting the tragic 2012 shooting had been staged.
Bridgeport Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis’ ruling came on the heels of a motion filed by the law firm, Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieber requesting officials review a broadcast that shows...

The lawyer for InfoWars host Alex Jones said he intends to file an appeal of a judge’s order to Jones to pay a financial sanction for falsely claiming on a television broadcast that he was being framed by the families of the Sandy Hook tragedy with child pornography.
“I will be filing a public interest appeal with the state Supreme Court on Monday,” Norman Pattis said Wednesday afternoon.
On Tuesday, following a hearing, Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ordered...

In the 25 days since Jennifer Dulos disappeared, the New Canaan police sent email updates, created a website for tips, and put out a request for surveillance footage. However, the department has yet to hold a single news conference.
On Tuesday, Connecticut State Police provided an update on the search for Jennifer.
“You know everyone’s asking is this a homicide investigation, is this a missing persons’ investigation,” Brian Foley, an aide to Commissioner...

Out on bail, the estranged husband of missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos wants police to give him back his belongings, including his cars.
Lawyers for Fotis Dulos, 51, filed a motion this week in court requesting that authorities return his Ford Raptor pickup truck, Chevy Suburban, Jeep Cherokee, two phones, computers, a server, and external hard drives, the Connecticut Post reported.
“The defendant needs access to it for practical reasons and in order to mount his...

Judge Barbara Bellis sent a stern warning to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones Tuesday, calling him "despicable" for accusing a lawyer representing Sandy Hook families of planting child pornography.
Sandy Hook families are suing Alex Jones over conspiracy theories he spread saying that the Newtown shooting that killed 26 students and faculty never took place.
As part of the suit, Jones turned over 58,000 emails. The FBI says 12 of them contained unopened links to child...

It’s war. Alex Jones said so from his Infowars studio in Austin as his Connecticut attorney, Norm Pattis, sat beside him, mouth agape at times. They are coming for him, U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy leading the charge, trying to get him off the air. A Barack Obama appointee is their “errand boy,” using the Sandy Hook victims.
That was the story Jones told in a profanity-laced tirade broadcast Friday on radio stations and over the web, when he accused...

Attorneys for Connecticut man Fotis Dulos, 51, are attempting to build a defense in the disappearance of Dulos’s 50-year-old estranged wife Jennifer Dulos. To do so, they’ll need their client’s stuff back, they say.
In a motion, the defense requested that authorities return three vehicles, phones, and computer equipment — all of which were seized as evidence.
“The defendant needs access to it for practical reasons and in order to mount his...

The lawyer representing the estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos says he is conducting his own investigation into the disappearance of the mother of five.
Dulos, 50, disappeared on May 24 in New Canaan, an affluent area of Connecticut. Since then her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, 51 and his 44-year-old girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, were charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution.
Fotis’ lawyer Norm Pattis told WPLR, a New Haven radio station, that “Mr....

As law enforcement continues an exhaustive search of garbage dumps, ponds, and woods for missing mother of five Jennifer Farber Dulos, her estranged husband's attorney Norm Pattis, says his client has an alibi.
Attorney Norm Pattis claimed during an interview with WFSB Eyewitness News 3 that Fotis Dulos was in Farmington and taking calls from his native Greece, adding that "they believe they have evidence to support that."
Jennifer Dulos has been missing for 25 days on Tuesday,...