Tal Alexander Again Seeks Bail in Sex Trafficking Case

Tal Alexander’s attorneys are pushing the court to reconsider granting him bail days after a federal judge ordered that he remain in the government’s custody until his trial.

Lawyers for the former top broker presented a $115 million bail package on Friday that would have been secured by his parents’ home, office building and the family’s properties. Now, Tal’s parents are offering to sign a bond “in any amount secured by the entirety of their assets,” according to a motion to reopen the detention hearing.

Srebnick, a partner at the prominent Miami criminal defense firm Black Srebnick, was added as counsel for Tal on Monday. Srebnick’s clients have included Jeffrey Epstein and Lil Wayne.

Attorneys Milton Williams and Howard Srebnick wrote that prosecutors did not turn over “Jencks Act” material, which is written or recorded statements made by a government witness before a trial that prosecutors are supposed to present to after the witness’ testimony.

Williams mentioned the Jencks Act on Friday, and Judge Lissette Reid said that if it contained material information, Williams could file a motion to reopen the detention hearing.

Tal’s attorneys also argued their client should be allowed to cross-examine FBI special agent Justine Atwood, who argued he posed a flight risk due to his wealth and his family’s ties to Israel. Atwood said that if Tal fled to Israel, where his parents Shlomy and Orly Alexander are from, the government would not be able to extradite him.

In the motion, Tal’s attorneys described Atwood’s testimony as “biased” and “unequivocally false,” pointing to Israel’s extradition treaty with the U.S. It also argues that Atwood failed to present evidence that Tal had tried to flee after news reports about an FBI investigation into him and his brothers, Oren and Alon, circulated this summer.

“Mr. Alexander is a United States citizen who has substantial family ties in the United States and who has no history of flight or intentions to flee,” the motion states. “Mr. Alexander does not hold citizenship in any other country, including Israel, and has not visited Israel in at least three years.”

Tal and his parents are also offering to turn over financial documents and call witnesses to back up claims that “there is sufficient financial disincentive [for him] to flee.”

“The government produced no evidence of Mr. Alexander’s finances, aside from broad assertions that Mr. Alexander comes from significant wealth, which he has ‘weaponized’ for criminality and now attempts to use ‘to get out of jail,’” Tal’s attorneys wrote in the motion.

Judge Reid said last week that the government met their burden to prove Tal is a flight risk. “He clearly has the financial resources to flee if he wants to,” she said.

Atwood said during Friday’s hearing that the FBI task force interviewed 40 alleged victims of the Alexanders.

Tal was arrested at his parents’ home in Bal Harbour early Wednesday morning; his younger twin brothers, Oren and Alon, were arrested at their Miami Beach homes after federal authorities searched their properties.

An indictment unsealed by the Southern District of New York last week charged the brothers with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and alleged they had raped and sexually assaulted more than a dozen women spanning over a decade.

Federal authorities indicated on Wednesday that all three brothers would have to come to New York to face the charges. At Tal’s hearing last week, a federal judge agreed with prosecutors that he should be transferred to New York and held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, known for housing rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs and former cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman-Fried.

Oren and Alon are also facing sexual battery charges in Florida. A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge granted their request for release on house arrest, but because of the federal charges, they will next be transferred into federal custody and appear before a judge for their pre-trial detention hearings.

Tal is at a federal detention center in Miami, while Oren is being held at Miami-Dade County’s Metrowest Detention Center and Alon is at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Oren and Tal were top real estate brokers in Miami and New York, catering to the 1 percent of clients, until civil lawsuits and reporting by The Real Deal, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other publications detailed accounts from scores of women accusing them of rape and sexual assault surfaced this summer.

Alon worked at his mother and uncle’s private security firm, Kent Security, but his name has been removed from the company’s website.

This article has been updated with information on attorney Howard Srebnick.