Defense offers 'any amount,' private security to secure release of Alexander brothers

Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald on Dec 30, 2024

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MIAMI — A defense lawyer for Alon Alexander offered a long list of house-arrest proposals and “any amount” of money on Monday in hopes of persuading a Miami federal judge to free him before a looming trail on a string of sex trafficking and rape charges.

The judge said he would make a decision on Friday when Oren Alexander, Alon’s twin brother, is expected to have his own bond hearing. The 37-year old Miami Beach twins and their older brother Tal Alexander all face similar charges based on accusations from women in both Miami Beach and New York going back years.

Oren and Tal are high-profile real estate brokers with a long list of celebrity clients and multimillion-dollar deals in both states. Alon works for the family’s Miami-base security firm.

Federal prosecutors want the three to remain in federal custody until they are arraigned in New York. U.S. magistrate judge Lissette Reid already denied Tal, 38, bond on Friday Dec. 20. Prosecutors argue that the wealthy brothers are a flight risk and a danger to the community.

But defense attorney Howard Srebnick told U.S. Magistrate Judge Eduardo Sanchez that the three brothers and their parents, Shlomy and Orly Alexander, were willing to issue a surety bond of any amount the judge saw fit, house all three brothers in the same home with electronic monitoring and also offered private security company to ensure the brothers’ will appear before a judge when the time comes.

The defense prepared a document with all of the family’s assets for review by the judge and federal prosecutor, a record entered under seal from public scrutiny. The full extent of the family’s wealth isn’t known but a Miami Herald analysis of public records identified residential and commercial properties with an assessed market value of more than $74 million owned by members of the family or companies tied to them, though they still have outstanding mortgages on some of them.

The Alexanders had previously pledged $115 million in assets — using as collateral the parents’ Bal Harbour home, the Kent security office building in North Miami and Oren, Tal and Alon’s homes in Miami Beach — in an unsuccessful bid to have Tal Alexander released from federal custody as he awaits trial on sex trafficking charges.

As part of any bond deal, Srebnick said the brothers could be housed at any of the brother’s or parents waterfront properties, their uncle Gil Neuman’s home in Broward, or any other home or condominium the judge saw fit.

U.S Assistant Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa no conditions were “truly sufficient” to ensure the brothers were not a flight risk or a danger to the community. She noted that the brothers, accused of gang raping women since high school had “acted with impunity their whole lives.”

The FBI has identified and interviewed “approximately 42” victims and dozens of others had come forward since the brothers’ arrest, Espinosa told the judge. “That case is only getting stronger and stronger as time goes on.”