On Thursday, a well-known luxury real estate salesman and his identical twin brother were charged with sexual assault and appeared in a Florida courtroom. The real estate company’s co-founder, another brother, is also accused of participating in what federal authorities refer to as an ongoing sex trafficking conspiracy.
Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer ordered Oren and Alon Alexander, both 37, to be held without bond until a hearing on Friday, when their lawyer will try to get them released on bail. According to state prosecutors, both should remain in custody until trial since they pose a flight risk.
We are proposing bail to the state. Joel Denaro, the boys’ lawyer, expressed hope that the state would agree to that during the Miami hearing. Using precautionary green jackets and exposing their arms, Oren and Alon Alexander were seen on camera attending the hearing.
On the federal sex trafficking charge against the three of them, the other brother, 38-year-old Tal Alexander, made an appearance in a Miami federal courthouse on Wednesday. Prosecutors are requesting pretrial detention for Tal Alexander, while Denaro is also requesting bail during his bail hearing on Friday.
To yet, none of them have pleaded guilty to the accusations.
The premium real estate company Official, which Oren and Tal Alexander co-founded, focuses on upscale properties with wealthy clients in places like New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. They assisted Ken Griffin, the founder of Citadel hedge firm, in buying a $238 million penthouse in New York in 2019, which set a record for the most expensive house ever sold in the United States.
In the indictment filed in New York, federal authorities claim that the three Alexander brothers conspired to rape, sexually assault, and repeatedly and violently drug scores of victims.
At a news conference on Wednesday, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said that the brothers exploited individuals between at least 2010 and 2021 by abusing their riches and power. Prosecutors claim that the Florida indictments relate to specific events against known victims.
According to the New York indictment, the brothers, who all live in the Miami area, utilized pressure, fraud, and deceit to persuade victims to accompany them on trips or to attend parties or gatherings where they paid for lodging, airfare, and other costs. According to officials, they occasionally exploited the potential of romantic relationships as well.
Oren Alexander informed the judge during the hearing on Thursday that he had a unique justification for requesting release on bail since his wife is nine months pregnant and is depending on me to be with her during labor.
I m required by law to hold you without bond, Glazer replied, noting that Oren Alexander s lawyer, Denaro, will have a chance to plead for release at another hearing.
Denaro stated, “We don’t think he’s a flight risk.”
U.S. prosecutors say the women who were victimized were often provided drugs, including cocaine, psychedelic mushrooms and GHB, and the brothers even surreptitiously drugged some of the women s drinks, leaving them physically impaired and unable to fight back or escape from the sexual assaults.
In the Florida cases, state prosecutors described one incident in December 2016 as a gang rape of a woman who said she was invited to a barbecue at Alon Alexander s Miami Beach apartment only to discover no one there but Alon and another man.
The second incident, in October 2017, involved a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by Oren Alexander at his apartment following a real estate event. The woman said she was given a glass of wine that made her feel weak and unable to control her body before the attack, according to prosecutors.
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