A jury has discovered the Alexander brothers responsible on all counts of their federal intercourse trafficking trial in New York Metropolis.
Jury deliberations started Thursday for the previous actual property titans, Oren and Alon Alexander, 38-year-old twins, together with their brother, Tal Alexander, 39, who’ve denied sexually assaulting anybody or working a intercourse trafficking conspiracy, as prosecutors have charged. They pleaded not responsible.
All through the five-week trial, 11 girls testified that they have been sexually assaulted by a number of of the brothers. A minimum of eight of the ladies claimed they have been drugged by one of many Alexanders.
Protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo makes arguments on how Choose Valerie E. Caproni will reply two questions from the jury through the federal sex-trafficking trial of high-profile actual property agent brothers Alon Alexander, Oren Alexander and Tal Alexander, in New York, March 9, 2026 in a courtroom sketch.
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“These are chilling, reprehensible, and unacceptable acts,” U.S. Legal professional Jay Clayton, whose workplace prosecuted the case, stated in a press release following the decision. “We commend the victims for his or her braveness in coming ahead and testifying on the trial. They bravely overcame the ache of reliving the abuses inflicted upon them and, as a consequence, prevented others from changing into victims.”
The brothers’ federal sentencing has been set for Aug. 6.
Oren and Tal Alexander gained notoriety in New York’s luxurious actual property market by their firm, Alexander Group, and have been underneath federal investigation alongside Alon since late 2024.
They’ve been accused of luring girls to nightclubs and events, then drugging and sexually assaulting them.
In his closing assertion, federal prosecutor Andrew Jones stated there may be “crushing proof” that the brothers “masqueraded as celebration boys when actually they have been predators” who dedicated an “array of federal intercourse offenses.”
Jones recounted the graphic accounts of the alleged victims and stated the rich brothers had a “playbook” luring girls with unique events, yachts and luxurious journey so they might assault them.
“As soon as they’d their victims the place they needed them, the defendants assaulted them utilizing drive, utilizing medication, or utilizing each,” Jones stated.
Then, the brothers allegedly bragged about their exploits in weblog posts with titles like “It is not rape if… you employ her tears as lube” and “It is not rape if… she secretly desires it.”
Jones informed the jury the allegations are corroborated “by the sheer variety of different victims who testified right here — girls who by no means met one another, who’ve every led totally different lives, in numerous professions, generally in numerous cities. However they’d one horrific factor in widespread — they have been every raped by these males. And so they described close to an identical experiences of their assaults.”
Throughout closing arguments, protection lawyer Howard Srebnick conceded the brothers could possibly be “obnoxious” and their conduct “inappropriate,” however he informed the jury, “No one was being assaulted, no person had been trafficked.”
Oren Alexander, Tal Alexander and Alon Alexander attend Chanukah With The Stars Gala, Dec. 10, 2014, at Harmonie Membership in New York.
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Srebnick urged jurors to reject the federal government’s case towards his shopper, Alon Alexander, insisting prosecutors failed to satisfy their burden of proof.
In her closing argument, Deanna Paul stated the brothers “will not be mobsters,” although generally they acted like “entitled a——-.”
A protection lawyer for Tal Alexander, Paul argued that prosecutors have requested the jury to “join dots that actually aren’t there.”
In his summations, protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo — Oren Alexander’s lawyer — prompt to the jury that the victims on this case have been dissatisfied with their encounters with the Alexanders, which motivated them to testify on this trial.
