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 operating a intercourse trafficking conspiracy, as prosecutors have charged. They pleaded not responsible.
All through the five-week trial, 11 ladies testified that they had been sexually assaulted by a number of of the brothers. At the least eight of the ladies claimed they had been drugged by one of many Alexanders.
Protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo makes arguments on how Choose Valerie E. Caproni will reply two questions from the jury throughout 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. Lawyer Jay Clayton, whose workplace prosecuted the case, stated in an announcement 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 end result, prevented others from changing into victims.”
A spokesperson for the Alexander household referred to as the decision “deeply disappointing.”
“We imagine there are substantial issues with the proof and the best way this case was introduced,” the spokesperson, Juda S. Engelmayer, stated in an announcement. “The authorized course of doesn’t finish right here. We’ll proceed combating day by day till justice is finished and the three brothers regain their freedom.”
An legal professional for one of many brothers additionally vowed to maintain combating.
“There are numerous avenues open to us. We’re not gonna cease,” Marc Agnifilo, who represented Oren Alexander, stated exterior court docket on Monday. “We imagine in our shopper’s innocence and we’re not gonna cease combating till we prevail. And we imagine that we’ll at some point prevail.”
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 way of their firm, Alexander Group, and have been beneath federal investigation alongside Alon since late 2024.
They’ve been accused of luring ladies 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 get together boys when actually they had been predators” who dedicated an “array of federal intercourse offenses.”
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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Jones recounted the graphic accounts of the alleged victims and stated the rich brothers had a “playbook” luring ladies with unique events, yachts and luxurious journey so they may assault them.
“As soon as that they had their victims the place they wished them, the defendants assaulted them utilizing pressure, utilizing medication, or utilizing each,” Jones stated.
Then, the brothers allegedly bragged about their exploits in weblog posts with titles like “It isn’t rape if… you utilize her tears as lube” and “It isn’t rape if… she secretly desires it.”
Jones instructed the jury the allegations are corroborated “by the sheer variety of different victims who testified right here — ladies who by no means met one another, who’ve every led totally different lives, in several professions, typically in several cities. However that they had one horrific factor in frequent — they had been every raped by these males. They usually described close to similar experiences of their assaults.”
Throughout closing arguments, protection legal professional Howard Srebnick conceded the brothers may very well be “obnoxious” and their conduct “inappropriate,” however he instructed the jury, “No person was being assaulted, no person had been trafficked.”
Srebnick urged jurors to reject the federal government’s case in opposition to his shopper, Alon Alexander, insisting prosecutors failed to satisfy their burden of proof.
In her closing argument, Deanna Paul stated the brothers “are usually not mobsters,” although typically they acted like “entitled a——-.”
A protection legal professional for Tal Alexander, Paul argued that prosecutors have requested the jury to “join dots that basically aren’t there.”
In his summations, Agnifilo steered to the jury that the victims on this case had been dissatisfied with their encounters with the Alexanders, which motivated them to testify on this trial.
