The accusations of sexual trafficking against two luxury real estate brokers and their brother were extended to include six victims, including a minor girl, according to an indictment replaced by Federal Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday.
Oren and Tal Alexander – who reigned on the luxury real estate markets in Miami and New York, as well as Twin Alon Alexander of Oren – were initially charged in Manhattan in December and accused of sex traffic by two victims by force, fraud or coercion. The three brothers were accused of trafficking in the first victim; Tal Alexander was accused alone in the trafficking of the second.
The new accusation act widens the scope of the accusations against the three brothers. He indicates that one or more of the brothers used in various ways, fraud or coercion in the milking of the five women and the girl, and said that the program dates back to 2009.
Women and girls, who are not named in accusation acts, represent only a fraction of the dozens of federal prosecutors say that the brothers used their wealth and their status to attract, drugs and sexual assaults and rape by going up two decades in their high school years.
The three men pleaded not guilty of the initial charges and should soon be brought back to the Manhattan Federal Court to be arrested for the new accusations.
The case, which started with male arrests in Florida in December, rocked the high -end real estate industry and led to the fall of Oren Alexander, 37, and Tal Alexander, 38, who had reached the highest ranks of one of the largest real estate brokers in the country.
Oren and Tal Alexander helped negotiate the sale of a penthouse of nearly $ 240 million in Manhattan – at the time, the most expensive residential sale in the history of the United States. They then co -founded their own real estate brokerage, called official. Alon Alexander, 37, did not work in real estate, but he socialized with his brothers.
The three men are detained in a federal detention center in Brooklyn while waiting for their trial, that the judge, Valerie E. Caproni, scheduled for January.
Oren and Alon Alexander also faced accusations of state trafficking in Florida and both pleaded not guilty. Tal Alexander is not faced with state accusations.
Defense lawyers for the brothers offered Swift reprimands on new accusations.
Deanna Paul, lawyer for Tal Alexander, said in a statement sent by email that the new indictment “does not change anything”, calling it a “warmed version of the same case” which “still does not include conduct which is qualified as sexual traffic under federal law”. She accused the government “of trying to stretch a status beyond recognition to adapt to a story”.
Richard Klugh, an Oren’s lawyer Alexander, described the new charges as “Swing-And-A-Miss” and “Fiasco of overtaking of the prosecutor”. Howard Srebnick, lawyer for Alon Alexander, did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Nicholas Biase, spokesperson for Jay Clayton, American acting lawyer in Manhattan, refused to comment on the lawyers for lawyers.
According to a federal indictment released on the day of their arrests, the three brothers have conspired in the sex trafficking program for at least 14 years – a window which is now extended in 2009, according to the new indictment. They pleaded not guilty to all accusations in February.
But the new indictment adds several new federal accusations, including an accusation which, in May 2009, Alon and Tal Alexander treated a child who was under 18 and forced him to engage in prostitution.
According to the government, the brothers have sometimes “organized these sexual assaults well in advance”, attracting victims of the promise of domestic and international luxury travel and high -end hotels. The women they have selected, continue the indictment, have sometimes been attacked or raped “by several men, including one or more” of the brothers. Many victims were reportedly addressed in advance. After the assaults, said the indictment, women have sometimes been given gifts such as concert tickets and “other luxury experiences”.
The accusation act also indicates that the brothers have often worked with party promoters “to organize women and girls to attend events or travel with them” and that some of these women and girls were transported through state and international lines as part of the program.
Often, the brothers and others “would surreptitiously drug women’s drinks,” said the indictment.
“Some of the victims have presented symptoms of altered physical and mental capacity, including the limits of movement and speech and incomplete memories of events,” he said.
In addition to the federal accusations, Oren and Alon Alexander face state accusations linked to three distinct assaults. The two pleaded not guilty to these state accusations in December. Ohad Fisherman, a family friend and colleague real estate broker, was appointed accomplice in one of these assaults; He went to the authorities in December and will be tried in Miami next month.
