The Justice Department is going after one of Alex Jones’ worst enemies—and the nation’s most-litigated conspiracy theorist can’t contain his excitement.
Top DOJ official Ed Martin sent a letter to Christopher Mattei, the lawyer representing FBI Special Agent William Aldenberg, who was one of the first officials to respond to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The letter came shortly after Jones posted a picture of himself and Martin on X, writing, “The Deep State is in DEEP S--t!”
A former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, Martin was appointed by President Donald Trump in May to head the DOJ’s “Weaponization Working Group,” having briefly served as interim U.S. attorney for D.C. He previously worked as an attorney and advocate for the Jan. 6 insurgents, as well as spreading bogus claims about the 2020 elections being rigged and Russian interference in 2016 being a Democratic Party “hoax.”
“I am writing to request information from you regarding your client FBI Special Agent William Aldenberg and his role in certain litigation that may benefit him personally and that may impact our citizens and our legal system,” Martin wrote to Mattei last Monday.
“As you may know, there are criminal laws protecting the citizens from actions by government employees who may be acting for personal benefit,” he added. “I encourage you to review those.”
Jones, who was ordered in 2022 to pay $90 million to Aldenberg as a result of defamation proceedings brought against the conspiracy theorist by the FBI official and families of children killed in the shooting, had posted the picture of himself standing beside Martin just three days before the letter was sent.
Martin’s increasingly bizarre efforts to name and shame officials who tried to hold MAGA figures to account culminated in him being caught on camera loitering outside the home of New York Attorney General Letitia James last month. Martin, who was wearing a trenchcoat in the August sunshine, was confronted by a neighbor who saw him and another goon peering into James’ property. The men claimed to be on some kind of architectural tour.
Martin was trying to keep his latest plot out of the news. He instructed Mattei in his letter to “keep this correspondence confidential” given he did not “wish to litigate this in the media,” Jones had no such plans.
“Breaking!” he wrote on Tuesday to his roughly 4.5 million followers, posting Martin’s letter. “The DOJ’s Task Force On Government Weaponization Against The American People Has Launched An Investigation Into The Democrat Party / Directing Illegal Law-fare Against Alex Jones And Infowars.”
There is no indication from the text of Martin’s letter that the Justice Department is presently “investigating” Aldenberg, much less the Democratic Party as it pertains to the estimated $1.2 billion defamation proceedings against Jones for pushing fake claims and conspiracy theories about the slaying of 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7, along with six adult members of staff at the school.
Aldenberg, who broke down in tears as he recalled at trial being the first to enter the classrooms where those children had been killed, testified during proceedings about the years of psychological trauma he had endured as the result of harassment from proponents of Jones’ baseless theories about the shooting.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the Justice Department, Aldenberg’s representatives, and Alex Jones for comment on this story. Mattei told ABC News that Jones’ response to the letter is “as disgusting as it is pathetic, and we will not stand for it.”
