Luxury real estate broker and his twin held without bail on sex trafficking charges
A prominent luxury real estate broker and his identical twin brother have appeared in a Florida courtroom Thursday on sexual assault charges
A prominent luxury real estate broker and his identical twin brother appeared in a Florida courtroom Thursday on sexual assault charges. Another brother, who co-founded the real estate firm, is also charged in what federal officials call a longtime sex trafficking scheme.
Oren and Alon Alexander, both 37, were ordered held without bond by Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer until a hearing Friday, where their attorney will attempt to free them on bail. State prosecutors contend both are flight risks and should stay in jail until trial.
“We're making a bail proposal to the state. Hopefully the state is amenable to that,” said the brothers' attorney, Joel Denaro, during the hearing in Miami. Oren and Alon Alexander appeared at the hearing via video wearing protective green vests, with their arms exposed.
The other brother, 38-year-old Tal Alexander, appeared Wednesday in a Miami federal courtroom on the federal sex trafficking indictment involving all three of them. Tal Alexander will have a bail hearing Friday, with prosecutors seeking pretrial detention and Denaro seeking bail in that venue as well.
None of them have entered a plea to the charges yet.
Oren and Tal Alexander co-founded the luxury real estate firm Official, which specializes in high-end properties in cities including New York, Miami, and Los Angeles with billionaire clients.
Federal prosecutors allege in the New York indictment that all three Alexander brothers worked together to “repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of victims.”
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Wednesday at a news
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