“I am under request from various federal agencies and law enforcement to provide (the records),” Mark Bankston, the plaintiffs’ attorney, told Judge Maya Guerra Gamble. “Absent a ruling from you saying you cannot do that … I intend to do so immediately following this hearing.”
“I believe that there is absolutely nothing, nothing, that Mr. Reynal has done to fulfill his obligations to protect his client and prevent me from doing that,” he said, referring to Jones’ attorney, Andino Reynal.
“I’ve been asked by the January 6 committee to turn the documents over,” Bankston added later.
Bankston declined to specify to CNN which other investigators outside of the House committee expressed interest in obtaining Jones’ text records.
The judge overseeing the case advised Reynal to take some time while they awaited a verdict to research a legal argument to stop Bankston from disclosing information to the January 6 committee and others.
Later Thursday, the jury hearing the case determined that Jones will have to pay the parents of a victim of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School more than $4 million for defamation and infliction of emotional distress.
