NEW YORK — Prominent real estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon have been indicted on sex trafficking charges in New York.
Authorities say they ran a sex trafficking scheme assaulting dozens of women between 2010 and 2021.
Officials from the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York are holding a news conference in New York City to announce the charges. Watch live on CBS News New York in the video player above.
Meanwhile, officials in Miami Beach are holding their own briefing on the multistate investigation. Watch live on CBS News Miami here.
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Oren and Tal Alexander are the founders of the luxury real estate firm Official, which has offices in Manhattan and Miami Beach. Alon Alexander is Oren’s twin and worked at the family’s private security firm.
“The defendants used their wealth and positions to create and facilitate opportunities to sexually assault women,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams announced Wednesday. “In particular, Oren and Tal Alexander used their prominent positions in the real estate industry to induce women to come to events and parties. At those parties, and sometimes afterwards, the women were sexually assaulted by one or more of the defendants.”
Williams said the brothers arranged domestic and international trips where they carried out their alleged crimes, and recruited women by providing things like travel, luxury accommodations and access to exclusive events.
According to an eight-page indictment filed ahead of the news conferences, the brothers deceived and coerced women into traveling with them or meeting them in private locations, where, in some cases, they allegedly drugged the women’s drinks or forcibly assaulted them. It also says they worked with other men to recruit their alleged victims.
Stick with this story for the latest updates as we learn more.
