Company tied to Alex Jones disputes The Onion’s Infowars purchase

A company tied to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed Monday to dispute the sale of the Infowars website to the parody site The Onion, calling it improper and unfair. In the morning, First United American Cos., a limited liability company that runs Jones’ online supplements store, filed an emergency motion to disqualify the winning bid of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron,’ to purchase the Infowars media empire and other assets.

said its final and best bid was $3.5 million for all of Jones’ assets, while it said The Onion’s bid was $1.75 million cash, in addition to a waiver from the Connecticut families promising some proceeds from the sale of Infowars’ assets, which Connecticut families valued at $2.625 million, according to the filing.

said accepting The Onion’s bid was “collusion” and argued that including the “contingent” waiver in its valuation was “improper.” Shortly after the emergency filing Monday, the trustee, the court-appointed person overseeing Jones’ estate, filed a preliminary response calling the emergency motion “a disappointed bidder’s improper attempt to influence an otherwise fair and open auction process.

now alleges, without evidence, collusion and bad faith in an attempt to mislead the Court and disqualify its only competition in the auction,” the filing continued. “The Trustee intends to respond in due course fully and in detail to the barrage of baseless allegations, selective quoting and half-truths in

’s recent filings.” The back-and-forth legal squabble followed days of celebration by The Onion and its supporters, as well as denial and rebuke from Jones, that the parody news organization would take over his platform. Infowars was briefly shut down after the sale was announced, NBC News reported, but it has resumed operating since. “I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m going to be here until they come and turn the lights off,” Jones said Thursday.

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