MIAMI — Federal prosecutors in New York City have turned up the heat on three wealthy Miami Beach brothers in their sex trafficking case, saying that “each defendant has separately been accused of forcible rape by at least 10 women.”

Prosecutors made that disclosure in a court filing before Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander face a major detention hearing Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, as they restated allegations that “over 40 women” have reported to the FBI that they were “forcibly raped or sexually assaulted by at least one of the Alexander brothers” between 2002 and 2021.

In pushing for no bonds for the brothers before trial, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York revealed that FBI agents executed a search warrant on Tal’s Manhattan apartment that he previously shared with his brother, Oren, on the date of the three brothers’ arrests at their Miami Beach homes, Dec. 11.

Agents found a hard drive with photos and videos showing twin brothers Oren and Alon with other men recording images of “themselves with women in states of intoxication and undress.”

“In multiple videos, the women appear initially unaware that they were being recorded and became upset and attempted to hide or flee from the camera after realizing they were being filmed,” says the prosecutors’ letter to U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, the New York judge presiding over Wednesday’s hearing.

“Multiple other videos found in Tal Alexander’s apartment depict Alon, Oren and other men engaged in sexual contact with women who are visibly under the influence of alcohol or other substances,” the letter continues. “In some instances, at least one defendant (Alon or Oren) and another man physically manipulated the women’s bodies in order to have sex with them while the women did not actively participate in the sexual activity or turned away.”

In the letter, prosecutors urged the Manhattan federal judge to detain the three Alexander brothers before trial. They said Oren, 37, and Tal, 38, once-celebrated real estate brokers in New York, and Alon, 37, an executive in the family’s security business in North Miami and Oren’s twin, are a danger to the community and a flight risk — possibly to their parents’ native country, Israel.

Defense attorneys fired back Tuesday, saying in a statement that the seized videos show no illegal conduct.

“The government points to lawful sexual behavior that it finds offensive, but is absolutely not illegal,” said attorney Deanna Paul, whose law firm, Walden Macht Haran & Williams, is representing one of the Alexander brothers. “It should be focused on legality, not morality. That we’re even talking about these videos shows the complete lack of evidence to support any of the three charges in the indictment.”

Prosecutors noted they have other video recordings made by Oren Alexander showing him and Alon “engaging in sexual activity with at least one identified victim.”

Feds: Brothers ‘forcibly raped’ women after drugging them

They said all three brothers “drugged victims, rendering them incapable of either consenting or resisting” — then, “when the victims were physically compromised or incapacitated, the defendants held them down and forcibly raped them.”

The three brothers were arrested last month on federal charges of conspiring to commit sex trafficking and two related counts, which carry up to life in prison. The indictment was filed in the Southern District of New York.

They’ve been held at the Federal Detention Center in Miami — though over the past month magistrate judges ordered their transfer to New York. The Miami judges found that Tal and Alon were flight risks — despite proposing bonds of $115 million secured by the family’s real estate assets. Oren opted to have his bail hearing in Manhattan federal court.

All three brothers are still in custody in Miami, U.S. Bureau of Prisons records showed Tuesday.

Caproni scheduled detention appeals for Tal and Alon and a bail hearing for Oren on Wednesday afternoon. Even if the brothers are not transferred to New York City by then, the judge plans to go ahead with the hearing.

Defense attorneys: Sex was consensual

Defense attorneys for the three Alexander brothers argue in court papers that they committed no sexual assaults, and that their relationships with the alleged victims were consensual and sometimes involved text messages to get together again.

Their attorneys also claim some of the accusers of pursuing lawsuits last year just to make money off the brothers and of never bringing their complaints to authorities in real time dating back years.

Oren Alexander’s lawyer, Richard Klugh, argued that the hard drive containing videos found by FBI agents at Tal’s Manhattan apartment should be turned over to the defense if the prosecutors are using them as a basis for no bail.

Klugh also argued that the videos “contradict the narrative previously advanced by the government” in prior court papers and detention hearings, suggesting the images are not incriminating.

Klugh argued that pretrial detention is meant for mafia bosses and cartel drug lords — not the Alexander brothers, who have pledged “any amount” of money to secure bonds while paying for private security guards to watch over them at high-rise apartments in Miami.

“Pretrial detention is meant for serious criminal organizations and their leaders, designed to address uncontrollable violent criminal activity and risks that cannot be quelled with any reasonable limitations,” Klugh wrote in a letter to Caproni. “Here there is a material dispute as to whether any federal or other crime happened at all, and whether conduct in a social event was consensual or not.

“And no matter how much the government bemoans the ‘depravity’ alleged here, the reality is that there is a material difference between these defendants and those for whom pretrial detention is contemplated under the Bail Reform Act.”

Lawyers for Alon and Tal Alexander — Howard Srebnick and Milt Williams — echoed those arguments in court filings in Manhattan federal court as well during court hearings in Miami.

“The government’s opposition, like the Detention Order (in Miami), greatly overstates the risk of flight, which our proposed bail conditions completely and fairly eliminate,” Tal Alexander’s lawyer, Williams, wrote in a letter to the judge in New York.

“Critically, the government ignores the fact that Mr. Alexander and his brothers, Alon and Oren Alexander, all of whom have no criminal history, knew of this criminal investigation since July and made no attempt to flee. Instead, the government attempts unfairly to detain Mr. Alexander for reasons that stem directly from the family’s lawfully earned wealth.”

No risk of flight for brothers, says attorney

Last week, after Oren Alexander told a a magistrate judge in Miami that he wanted to have his bond hearing in New York City, Srebnick gave his assessment of the U.S. government’s case against the brothers.

“We’re hopeful that the Marshals will get them there, but either way, we want to make our presentation as to why none of the three is a risk of flight,” Srebnick told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Miami.

Srebnick said the parents, Shlomo and Orly Alexander, have “pledged everything they have on the planet Earth to secure the bond.”

“It is quite clear that these boys are not going to leave their family destitute,” Srebnick said. “And it’s equally implausible as the government had suggested that they’re going to flee to Israel, a country that’s in war, that without a passport, you can’t get into Israel, and if somehow Jason Bourne or James Bond could get into Israel, they’d be extradited right back to the United States.”

42 women have come forward with accusations

All three Alexander brothers were arrested on charges of luring women to swank locales in New York City, the Hamptons, Aspen and Miami Beach by paying for their travel and then plying them with drug-laced drinks before allegedly raping them.

According to the FBI and federal prosecutors, 42 women have accused at least one of the three brothers of sexual assault in the sex-trafficking conspiracy indictment, which was filed in Manhattan federal court.

All three are expected to enter not guilty pleas at their eventual arraignments in New York City.

Miami judges deny bond of two brothers

The pivot to New York was inevitable after Miami Magistrate Judge Eduardo Sanchez this month rejected the defense bid to free Alon, noting the potential flight risk.

“These are extremely serious charges that carry extremely serious penalties,” Sanchez said, citing the FBI’s investigation and that each defendant potentially faces up to life in prison.

Another Miami magistrate judge, Lisette Reid, denied a $115 million bond request in December by the third brother, Tal.

The twin brothers, Along and Oren, were also charged with sexual battery by the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office. They were granted bonds by a state circuit judge and then transferred to federal custody.

In federal court, lawyers for the twins and the older brother initially proposed they stay with their parents in Bal Harbour or in high-rise apartments in the Miami area with private security around the clock.

The defense prepared a document with all of the family’s assets for review by the court and prosecutors, 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.

However, the Herald’s analysis did not include the parents’ properties in Tel Aviv and the Bahamas, which were eventually disclosed in court.

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