Three wealthy Jewish brothers were accused last month of drugging and then sexually assaulting and raping dozens of women in multiple states, and authorities say new video evidence in the case shows the "depraved" nature of their alleged crimes.
Tal, 38, and Oren Alexander, 37, two prominent Jewish Israeli jet-setting brokers in New York and Miami, and their brother Alon were arrested in Miami Beach on Dec. 11. They were denied bail on suspicion that they might flee to Israel, which has consistently offered asylum to Jewish criminals escaping justice around the world.
In interviews with federal police, some 40 women reported "being forcibly raped or sexually assaulted by at least one of the Alexander Brother".
In many of these instances, one or more of the Alexander Brothers drugged their victim prior to the rape, prosecutors said in a brief filed with U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in New York. Meanwhile, prosecutors on argued against setting bail for the brothers, whose "incentives to flee are through the roof," they said, arguing that the Alexanders have significant foreign connections, especially in their native Israel.
Caproni eventually denied bail because of the flight risk to Israel, a country with a history of refusing to extradite Jewish criminals. The judge also used the strong evidence against the two criminals to conclude that the two Jewish men pose a danger to unsuspecting women.
Each of the brothers stands accused by at least 10 women of forcible rape between 2002 and 2021 Authorities executed a warrant on Dec. 11 to search Tal Alexander's apartment inside a skyscraper on Manhattan's "Billionaire's Row." During the search, multiple hard drives were discovered and seized, including one with a large quantity of sexually explicit videos and pictures.
The apartment was previously shared by Oren and Tal Alexander, the letter continues, adding that the photos and videos were found on a hard drive in a closet that appeared to include items belonging to Oren.
Damian Williams, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, during a news conference in New York, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Luxury real estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon were arrested and charged with sex-trafficking by federal prosecutors in New York.
The seized photos and videos depict "at least Oren, Alon, and several third parties recording or photographing themselves with women in states of intoxication and undress," and in multiple videos, "the women appear initially unaware that they were being recorded and became upset and attempted to hide or flee from the camera after realizing they were being filmed," prosecutors said in their letter to the judge.
Other videos found in Tal Alexander's apartment show Alon and Oren Alexander and other men engaged in sexual contact with women "who are visibly under the influence of alcohol or other substances," the letter continues, adding that in some cases, at least one of the brothers and another man "physically manipulated the women’s bodies in order to have sex with them while the women did not actively participate in the sexual activity or turned away."
Prosecutors explained that the new evidence reveals the "depraved nature" of the brothers' actions, as well as the "immense danger" they present. "The fact that video versions of “trophies” of the defendants’ criminal conduct were found in Tal Alexander’s residence as recently as last month also suggests that the defendants have not closed the door on their criminal conduct," the letter continues.
Prosecutors allege that the Alexander brothers "worked together, and with others known and unknown to repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape" victims in New York, Miami and elsewhere, according to a federal indictment filed in December. All three brothers were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and a separate count of sex trafficking of one woman by force, fraud or coercion. In addition, Tal Alexander was charged with the sex trafficking of a second victim.
As part of their sex trafficking conspiracy, the Alexander brothers "engaged in a persistent pattern of rape and sexual assault, which included both pre-planned trips and events for which the defendants recruited women to attend and then raped and sexually assaulted them, as well as opportunistic rapes and sexual assaults of numerous victims who they encountered by chance," prosecutors say.
According to the charges in the indictment, the three brothers had conspired in the sex-trafficking scheme since at least 2010, but prosecutors have alleged that their sexual violence against women actually spans more than 20 years, dating as far back as when the men were in high school in Miami.
Defense attorneys for the three brothers have argued that they committed no sexual assaults, and that their relationships with the alleged victims were consensual. Attorneys for Tal wrote a reply to Judge Caproni this week arguing that the prosecution "fails to detail when the videos were taken, how many videos, if any, the defendants are in, whether the purported participants have been identified, or whether the videos even depict non-consensual sexual activity."
At Wednesday's hearing, Judge Caproni said the women in the videos appear visibly incapacitated, adding, "In my view, that is rape." The Alexander brothers are still in custody in Florida and will be moved to New York next week, the judge added. They will likely be housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a.k.a. Sex Abuser Resort, the same prison where Sean "Diddy" Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried are being held.
Observers have expressed shock that three well-to-do, good boys, whose religion (Judaism) and national identity (Israeli) imply the highest moral and ethical standards, have committed such crimes. Neither the Torah nor then Talmud describe, let alone condone, such brutality, bestiality and criminality in the conduct between people. While Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein were thought of “outliers”, people all over the world have been compelled over the past 75 years to believe that Jewish people can only be victims, never criminals, while those who resist land-theft and genocide carried out against them by Jewish people are fundamentally bad “terrorists” worthy of more genocide and killing.
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