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Judge declines to dismiss sex trafficking case against real estate brothers
Judge Valerie E. Caproni upheld most charges against the Alexander brothers for a two-decade sex trafficking conspiracy involving dozens of women, dismissing one count due to time limits.
- In an Oct. 17 opinion unsealed Wednesday, Federal Judge Valerie E. Caproni left the sex-trafficking indictment largely intact, rejecting defense efforts to dismiss the charges.
- Prosecutors say the scheme involved a two-decade pattern from 2002 to 2021 where luxury real estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and Alon Alexander allegedly drugged and assaulted women at hotels.
- The defense argues messages and interactions undermine accusers' stories, contending they found evidence discrediting nearly every narrative and will show some witnesses are lying at the early January trial.
- The trial is currently scheduled for January, the brothers are detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting trial, and Caproni said she might postpone the proceeding until May after a hearing last week.
- Oren and Tal Alexander, who rose to prominence in luxury real estate, have pleaded not guilty and appeared publicly at a Dec. 13, 2024 bond hearing in Miami and a long ago gala.
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The sex-trafficking prosecution of luxury real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander and their brother Alon can move ahead after a federal judge on Tuesday rejected most of their attempts to get the charges tossed.
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Judge declines to dismiss sex trafficking case against real estate brothers
A federal judge says a two-decade pattern of alleged sex trafficking by two luxury real estate brokers and their brother wasn’t “just men behaving badly.”
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