Two star US real estate brokers charged with sex trafficking

STORY: ::December 11, 2024::New York:: Co-founders of the real estate brokerageOfficial are charged with sex traffickingDamian Williams/U.S. Attorney/Southern District of New York"Today I'm announcing a three count indictment charging three brothers: Alon Alexander, Oren Alexander, and Tal Alexander with sex trafficking offenses. As alleged in the indictment, the Alexander brothers agreed together to traffic, rape, and sexually assault more than a decade, over a decade, multiple women. Let me say more about the charged criminal activity. The indictment alleges that between at least 2010 and at least 2021, the Alexander brothers worked together and with others to repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault and rape dozens of female victims.”“As alleged in the indictment, for years the Alexander brothers, sometimes with others, also arranged domestic and international trips to carry out their sex trafficking scheme. To recruit and induce women to come on the trips they provided material benefits, things like travel to vacation destinations, luxury accommodations and access to other high end experiences.”“The indictment also alleges that in advance of these events, the Alexander brothers and others procured drugs that they agreed to provide to the women, including cocaine, mushrooms and GHB. As we allege, these drugs caused some of the women to be physically unable to fight back or to escape.”The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office accused brothers and co-founders of the Official brokerage Oren Alexander and Tal Alexander, as well as their brother Alon Alexander, of drugging and sexually assaulting victims for more than a decade starting in 2010.In Florida, also on Wednesday, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced the arrest of Oren Alexander and his twin brother Alon Alexander following a joint investigation into sexual assault allegations occurring on Miami Beach.The brothers often invited women to parties or trips, where they would rape them alone or together, sometimes within hours of meeting them, prosecutors said in an eight-page indictment. They sometimes offered the victims travel or concert tickets after the assaults, according to the indictment.They each face one count of sex-trafficking conspiracy and one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. Tal Alexander faces an additional count of sex trafficking.A lawyer for Tal Alexander, 38, declined to comment. Lawyers for twins Oren and Alon Alexander, both 37, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Oren and Tal Alexander stepped down from their roles at Official in June, the New York Times reported. Alon Alexander has worked as an executive at a private security firm, prosecutors said.Officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander have also been sued in civil court over sexual-assault allegations. All three brothers have denied the allegations.Official focuses on brokering high-end real estate sales and rentals in New York, Miami, the Hamptons and Aspen, Colorado.