The parent company of Alex Jones’ Infowars program appears unlikely to reorganize in bankruptcy following an irreparable feud between the company’s chief officer and lead attorney, a court-appointed trustee said.
Efforts to rehabilitate Free Speech Systems LLC in Chapter 11 are about to fail, trustee Melissa Haselden told the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in a one-page brief on Sunday. The trustee’s statement comes as Free Speech’s chief restructuring officer, Patrick Magill, is asking to replace lead attorney Ray Battaglia after both men said their relationship was “fundamentally broken.”
The dispute, which was recently made public in a series of heavily-redacted briefs, is raising questions about the company’s path out of bankruptcy and bid to settle about $1.5 billion in claims held by the families of Sandy Hook School shooting victims through a Chapter 11 plan. The company is scheduled to…
