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Alex Jones must pay an additional $473 million in punitive damages and attorneys’ fees on top of the $965 million a jury ordered him to pay eight Sandy Hook families and an FBI agent he defamed, the Register Citizen reported. State Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis' ruling was welcomed by the families. The judge ordered Jones to pay the FBI agent and 14 family members who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook massacre $10 million each in punitive damages, and ordered Jones to pay the families' $320 million attorney fees and $1.5 million in legal expenses. In prior arguments, the families had suggested Jones should pay as much as $2.75 trillion in punitive damages for calling the 2012 massacre of 26 first graders and educators “staged,” “synthetic,” “manufactured,” “a giant hoax,” and “completely fake with actors.” Jones on his Texas-based Infowars show reacted to the judge's punitive award by saying he didn't have the money. "They’d asked for $2.75 trillion...and then now they (say) ‘Oh, it’s more reasonable, only $473 million,’" Jones said. "If I sold everything I had, it’s not $5 million, $4 million.” The judge's decision came the same day she sided with Sandy Hook families and ordered Jones not to move his assets out of the country.