A losing bid associated with Alex Jones, the Infowars leader, is holding a hearing on Monday to examine the bidding process. The Onion, a humorous store based in Chicago, announced last week that it had won an bid to buy the plot website Infowars out of debt, which was a happy triumphant. The package seemed done: Infowars went online, cartoons of an angry Alex Jones, its leader, sped across social media, and Ben Collins, chief executive of The Onion’s family business, pronounced the revolt “hilarious”.No one is laughing now. A buyer affiliated with Mr. Jones filed an 11th-hour issue to the deal, which has complicated the bankruptcy proceedings. The last act of the bankruptcy proceeding has since been highlighted by a burst of court papers, which have turned out to be just as chaotic as those that followed. The auction’s even another bid, First United American Businesses, which is associated with one of Mr. Jones’s online businesses, is contesting the price to The Onion’s family firm, Global Tetrahedron. Following Judge Christopher Lopez’s scheduled hearing on Monday to review the selling process in a federal bankruptcy court in Houston, the results of that effort may be known. In an effort to recover nearly$ 1.5 billion in damages awarded to the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the Infowars auction is a part of a larger effort to liquidate Mr. Jones ‘ personal and business assets. Mr. Jones lied for decades about the 2012 firing, claiming that the people were lied about and that the government had orchestrated it to promote strict gun control. The people of 10 Sandy Hook survivors sued Mr. Jones and his business, Free Speech Systems, in Texas and Connecticut. The Onion is being led by the Connecticut individuals and their attorneys in the sale of Infowars ‘ important resources. The post information is retrievable with difficulty. In your browser’s settings, kindly help Browser. Thank you for your patience while exposure is verified. If you are in Audience mode please leave and log into your Times accounts, or listen for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while exposure is verified. Now a subscription? Register in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.