Last week Judge Barbara Bellis sanctioned InfoWars founder and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after the law firm Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder accused him of threatening firm members representing families of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.

The sanctions imposed emanate from one of Jones’ internet shows, during which he asserted attorney Chris Mattei was trying to set him up by planting child porn in electronic files that Jones’ team had turned over as part of the discovery process. “You’re trying to set me up with child porn, I’ll get your ass,” Jones claimed on a broadcast before adding, “$1 million, you little gang members. $1 million to put your head on a pike.”

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