MIAMI — The twin Alexander brothers charged with forcing dozens of women to have sex with them are expected to learn on Friday whether they will be detained in a federal lock-up before trial that might be held months from now or next year.

Alon and Oren Alexander, both 37, will appear in Miami federal court, where a magistrate judge will determine whether their proposal of putting up “any amount” of money in excess of $100 million to secure bonds for their release will ensure their appearance at trial. Lawyers for the twins, who along with a third brother have made a fortune in the real estate business, have proposed that they stay with their parents in Bal Harbour or in apartments in the Miami area with private security around the clock.

Federal prosecutors strongly oppose such an arrangement, saying both twins are a danger to the community and a risk of light, possibly to Israel, where the Alexander family has connections.

It is not clear how Magistrate Judge Eduardo Sanchez will rule on Friday, but two factors will be weighing on him.

Another magistrate judge, Lisette Reid, denied a $115 million bond request in December by the third brother, Tal Alexander, 38, who is charged with the twins in a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and related rape charges between 2010 and 2012 in New York, Miami Beach and other places. If convicted of the charges, which were filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, the three brothers face up to life in prison.

In addition, Sanchez, a former federal prosecutor like Reid, already expressed skepticism about the twins’ bond proposal, calling it “extraordinary” at Alon’s detention hearing on Monday, which has been continued to today. Sanchez also said offering up all of the family’s money and assets did not convince him that they weren’t “willing to do whatever is necessary to not face those sentences.”

In court papers filed this week, Alon’s defense attorney argued that “It bears repeating that the singular objective of the court is to it can fashion conditions to assure the safety of the community and appearance in court—not to punish the defendant before trial.”

“The fact that family members have the financial ability to provide the court with additional assurances of compliance through a private security guard should not be demonized,” attorney Howard Srebnick wrote.

But federal prosecutors argued the opposite.

“Alon Alexander, Oren Alexander and their brother and co-defendant, Tal Alexander, have joined a group of wealthy individuals charged with sex trafficking and similar offenses who have attempted to buy their way out of federal detention by funding their own private jails,” prosecutor Lauren Astigarraga wrote in a court filing, citing the high-profile prosecutions of New York financier Jeffrey Expstein, who killed himself in federal custody while awaiting trial, and rap mogul P. Diddy, who is facing trial.

“ Courts presented with these proposals have rejected them for what they are: efforts to use money and privilege to receive special treatment in the justice system,” Atigarraga wrote.

Whatever Sanchez decides, it is expected that one side or the other will appeal his decision to a U.S. district court judge in Miami or New York City. Even if Sanchez agrees to bonds for the twin brothers, his decision would be put on hold until the bond dispute is resolved.

Oren and Tal are prominent luxury real estate brokers with a long list of celebrity clients and multimillion-dollar deals in Manhattan and Miami Beach. Alon, who has a law degree, has worked for the family’s Miami-based security firm, Kent.

At Monday’s detention hearing for Alon, Srebnick told Sanchez that the three brothers and their parents, Shlomi 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 a private security company to ensure the brothers will appear before a judge when the time comes.

“What we’ve offered today is, I think, more than anyone in the District has ever offered,” Srebnick said.

Srebnick assured the judge that the security company they were proposing, V2 Global, had no connection to Kent Security, the firm owned and operated by the Alexander family. Donald DeLucca, who previously served as chief of police for Miami Beach, Golden Glades and Doral and is a shareholder at V2 Global, said the firm was equipped to do this work either in Miami or New York.

Srebnick even said that the defendants could also be housed in a different location, in a high-rise apartment with no balcony to be rented by the family. Calling the move a “hypothetical,” Sanchez said he would wait and make a decision on whether to approve the release on bond on Friday.

U.S Assistant Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa said 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.”

She said the brothers’ ties to Israel (both parents and Alon’s wife Shani were born in Israel) also proved he was a flight risk. Srebnick offered to surrender Alon’s parents’, wife’s and kids’ passports to prove that they were not.

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.

Since the sex-trafficking investigation was launched in June, FBI said it has identified and interviewed “approximately 42” victims. Dozens of others have come forward since the brothers’ arrest last month, Espinosa told the judge.

“That case is only getting stronger and stronger as time goes on,” she said.

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