Latest on Oren, Tal, Alon Alexander Brothers Criminal Cases

Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander are staying in custody as they await the next steps in federal proceedings over sex trafficking charges.

A federal judge denied Tal’s request for release at a hearing on Friday, two days after he and his twin brothers were arrested in Miami. Lisette M. Reid sided with prosecutors who argued the disgraced broker’s financial resources deemed him a flight risk, despite a $115 million bond package dangled by the defense.

Federal authorities will relocate Tal to a New York jail, but didn’t specify when. Oren and Alon, who are also facing state sexual battery charges, are still in custody and are scheduled to appear before a federal judge next week. The twins’ attorney, Joel Denaro said his clients were “innocent.”

All three brothers have been charged by federal authorities with operating what they say is a “long-running sex trafficking scheme” and raping dozens of women for more than a decade. Prosecutors in New York said they would continue to investigate alleged incidents involving the Alexanders and emphasized that they were not acting alone.

Two days after the FBI raided their waterfront Miami Beach homes, Oren and Alon were back in court, one in a red jumpsuit and the other in a green safety smock. The twins first appeared in court on Thursday.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lody Jean approved an agreement reached by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office with Denaro. The hearing established the remaining terms of their pre-trial release, granting them bail and requiring house arrest, but the ruling doesn’t release them from custody due to a federal hold.

Prosecutors argued in the indictments that the severity of charges against Oren and Alon rendered them dangers to the community and that they posed a flight risk due to their wealth, social connections and international ties.

Shlomy and Orly’s waterfront Bal Harbour home is being used as collateral, securing Oren and Alon’s appearances. If the twin brothers fail to appear in court while out on bail, Shlomy is on the hook for a combined $5 million. The home is valued at $40 million and currently has a $3 million mortgage, according to pre-trial release orders.

The judge also ordered Oren and Alon to level three house arrest, which will require them to wear ankle monitors with GPS tracking. Under the provisions, Oren will be allowed to travel to the hospital, as his wife is expected to give birth to their first child.

Roy Zemlock of Bail Miami is also issuing three $25,000 corporate bonds, one for Alon and two for Oren, ahead of their release from state custody, according to the pre-trial release orders.

Zemlock was present in the courtroom, as were the twins’ parents, Orly and Shlomy Alexander.

Oren was brought into a courtroom at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building and he called out to his parents. “Love you guys,” he said.

The twins’ older brother, Tal, was arrested at his parents’ home early on Wednesday. Tal, who has not been charged in Florida, appeared before a judge Friday in a hearing to discuss his relocation from Miami to the Southern District of New York.

A lawyer for Tal, Milton Williams, offered a $115 million bond package using assets like his parents’ waterfront Bal Harbour home and his brothers’ Miami Beach homes. Lauren Astigarraga, an Assistant U.S. Attorney with Florida’s Southern District, pushed back, saying “no combination of bond conditions can reasonably [protect] the community.

When he does arrive, he will be placed in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, notorious for hosting detainees like rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs and cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.

In Florida, Oren is charged with three counts of sexual battery for alleged attacks that occurred in 2016, 2017 and 2021. Alon, along with a family friend Ohad Fisherman, is charged with one count of sexual battery connected to the 2016 incident.

Fisherman, who the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office previously referred to as a cousin of theirs, will surrender to the state on Wednesday, Dec. 18. Fisherman previously worked as an agent with Tal and Oren’s brokerage, Official Partners. He now leads his own brokerage.

Prosecutors allege he helped facilitate the alleged rape of a woman by the brothers in Miami Beach in 2016. Fisherman’s attorney, Jeffrey Slomon, told the judge that his client is on his honeymoon in Japan and will return next week on Tuesday. The judge will reissue his arrest warrant if he doesn’t appear.

Oren and Tal were top real estate brokers in Miami and New York, and Alon worked for his family’s private security firm, Kent Security.

Investigators said in the federal indictment that they spoke to dozens of women who reported being raped by one or more of the Alexander brothers between 2005 and 2021, dating back to when they were in high school. The Real Deal first reported this summer on rape allegations against Oren and Alon that were made in two civil lawsuits filed in New York.