Alex Jones lives it up but refuses to pay $1.5bn debt to Sandy Hook families

Far-right conspiracy theorist spending tens of thousands on high-end restaurants while failing to pay damages from legal verdict

The rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is continuing to live the high life while refusing to pay a cent of the $1.5bn damages he owes families of victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting he called a hoax.

Court documents show that the disgraced host of the far-right conspiracy theory and hoax news website Infowars is spending tens of thousands of dollars a month on expenses" including high-end restaurants and groceries, while payments to the families are frozen following his declaration of bankruptcy last year.