The question of how secret medical records were improperly disclosed to lawyers of relatives of Sandy Hook victims involved in a Texas defamation suit was answered at a disciplinary hearing in Superior Court in Waterbury on Thursday: by accident.
F. Andino Reynal, who defended conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a Texas suit brought by the parents of a first grader killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, said he instructed his secretary in late July to transmit what was supposed to have been a file of Jones’ text messages to the parent’s lawyers.
Inadvertently, Reynal testified, a massive trove of digitalized evidence, including closely guarded medical and psychiatric records of the relatives of Sandy Hook victims pressing separate suits against Jones in Connecticut, was transmitted to lawyers pressing the Texas suit.
