Real estate broker Ohad Fisherman spoke publicly for the first time since prosecutors dropped a sexual battery case against him centered on an alleged attack that also involves twin brothers Oren and Alon Alexander.
Fisherman and his attorneys held a celebratory press conference on Wednesday morning. Displayed in front of news cameras was an easel holding a large print of a photo depicting the alleged victim with her sisters and friend hours after the alleged rape. Edward O’Donnell and Joel Denaro, attorneys for Oren and Alon Alexander, stood nearby. Alon’s wife, Shani, also attended the press conference.
Fisherman, seated between his expecting wife, Jordan Royt Fisherman, and his attorney, Jeffrey Sloman of Stumphauzer Kolaya Nadler & Sloman, said that his case shows what can happen “when the system breaks down.”
The state is still pursuing sexual battery charges against the twin Alexander brothers, who are currently in federal custody alongside their older brother, Tal, awaiting their sex trafficking trial early next year.
The state called Fisherman an accomplice of the brothers, accusing him of pinning a woman down on New Year’s Eve in 2016 as Oren and Alon allegedly took turns raping her at one of the brothers’ apartments in Miami Beach. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle dropped the sexual battery charge against Fisherman on Monday, the day his trial was expected to begin.
Fisherman said he made no deal or compromise with the state attorney’s office. “The state dropped the charge because they knew I didn’t do this,” he said.
Fisherman provided an alibi that he was on a boat “somewhere along the Intracoastal Waterway” at the time of the alleged assault. Drone video that Fisherman uploaded to Facebook, and metadata associated with the video, confirmed his alibi, according to a motion filed by his attorneys.
In a statement, Fernandez Rundle said that the video “casts doubt” on proof that Fisherman was at the scene of the alleged crime. “Given the prosecution’s inability to conclusively disprove the alibi, we determined in good faith that we could not prove the case against Ohad Fisherman,” she said.
Sloman called the case “a con with courtrooms and cops thrown in to make it look real” and a “Kafkaesque experience.”
Fisherman was on his honeymoon with his wife in Japan when state prosecutors announced the Alexander brothers had been arrested on state and federal charges and that Fisherman was “at large.” Prosecutors mistakenly referred to Fisherman as a cousin of the Alexanders at the time.
He said he had been in Japan for a few hours when he heard news of the charges. He isn’t a part of the federal case.
During Tuesday’s press conference, Fisherman broke down in tears and thanked God and his family.
He had worked with the Alexanders for years. Fisherman was an agent with Oren and Tal’s Side-backed brokerage, Official, before starting his own firm last fall, months after the rape allegations against the Alexanders were reported. Fisherman was also an agent with Douglas Elliman, the brokerage firm where Oren and Tal built their careers over a decade.
“I’ve been dragged through the month, arrested and labeled a monster,” Fisherman said. “The damage done to me and my family is huge.”
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