Alexander Brothers Fail to Win Bail in Sex-Trafficking Case
- Judge rules that they are flight risks, dangers to community
- Luxury real estate brokers were arrested in December
Oren Alexander during a bond hearing in Miami on Dec. 13.
Photographer: Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Bloomberg
Luxury real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander failed to win release from custody before their trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, despite contrasting their case with those of rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell and others accused of the same crime.
US District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan on Wednesday rejected arguments by lawyers for Tal, Oren and another brother, Alon Alexander seeking to have them freed on a more than $115 million bail package backed by their families’ assets. Though they were charged in New York last month with a yearslong conspiracy to “drug, sexually assault and rape dozens of victims,” the Alexanders were arrested in Miami and have been in custody there.