Trial for Alexanders’ alleged accomplice Ohad Fisherman starts next week

Real estate broker Ohad Fisherman’s trial is set to begin next week, after the judge overseeing the state’s sexual battery case against Fisherman and twin brothers Oren and Alon Alexander denied their motion to dismiss. 

Miami-Dade state prosecutors’ case against Fisherman hinges on the alleged rape of a woman on New Year’s Eve in 2016. The state attorney’s office alleges that Fisherman held the woman down as Oren and Alon allegedly took turns raping her. 

Oren and Alon are in federal custody awaiting their sex trafficking trial with their older brother, Tal. The twins will be tried separately in the state case at a later date.

The defense has argued that the state acted in bad faith as part of what they allege is “a coordinated effort to shield the most critical evidence in the case from ever being tested or seen” by not trying to secure or preserve potential video evidence of the rape, a photo, a text and a potential drone video that would help establish the timeline that day. 

The victim, identified as M.W., told detectives last fall that while she was not sure, she felt like the alleged attack was recorded. M.W. said Alon’s phone might have been positioned where it would have shown her and Alon only during the alleged rape, but she said throughout questioning that she did not know exactly where or how the phone was placed.

FBI agents took Alon’s phone into federal custody when they arrested the brothers in December. 

Jean wrote in her denial of the motion to dismiss that the court did not lose or allow evidence to be destroyed, and that the state was not acting in bad faith.

Tal, Oren and Alon are facing 10 federal charges in connection with what prosecutors described as a long-running sex trafficking scheme. Among the charges are multiple counts of sex trafficking involving one or more of the brothers, including one allegation that Tal and Alon sex trafficked a victim who was a minor at the time. 

The brothers were arrested in Miami on Dec. 11 and were later transferred to the Southern District of New York. Their federal trial is slated to begin in January 2026. 

In addition to the case involving Fisherman and Alon, Oren is also facing two other charges of sexual battery in Miami-Dade County. 

Fisherman and the Alexanders have denied the allegations. 

Fisherman worked for Oren and Tal’s Side-backed brokerage, Official, before starting his own firm in the fall. He was also an agent with Societe Real Estate and Douglas Elliman. Oren and Tal built their careers at Elliman over the course of the decade leading up to 2022 before they started Official with co-founders Richard Jordan, Nicole Oge and Andrew Wachtfogel.