The judge overseeing Alex Jones’s Infowars case just ordered a hearing into how the Onion won the bidding after Alex’s lawyers alleged that the trustee overseeing the auction rigged it at the last minute to allow the Onion to win
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4278498/posts
The day before the “auction” the trustee declared bidding would be sealed and each bidder could only make a single bid and there would be no competitive bidding and the bids would not be made public. IOW, a Star Chamber auction.
Furthermore, it was supposed to be confirmed beforehand that all the bidders had the cash on hand, but evidently nobody confirmed The Onion’s cash position.