Extra prices are anticipated to be filed in opposition to disgraced luxurious actual property brokers Tal and Oren Alexander, and their brother Alon, because the variety of girls accusing the alleged sicko siblings of rape climbed to 60, federal prosecutors revealed Friday.
The brothers pleaded not responsible at their first Manhattan court docket look as Oren, his twin brother Alon, each 37, and older brother Tal, 38, sat with their fingers and toes cuffed collectively on the protection desk in matching jail-issued beige jumpsuits and slip-on sneakers.
“We do intend to carry a superseding indictment on this case,” prosecutor Elizabeth Espinosa advised the court docket, describing a authorized submitting that can add new allegations in opposition to the three jailed males.
The expanded case will embrace extra victims ready to testify at a trial, she added.
Prosecutors had mentioned that they’d beforehand spoken to 40 girls who say a minimum of one of many brothers raped them. The feds charged that a minimum of two of the siblings “penetrated” their victims collectively in eight separate encounters.
The brothers are being held with out bail after a stunning indictment unsealed in December accused them of utilizing “the promise of luxurious experiences, journey, and lodging to lure and entice girls to areas the place they have been then forcibly raped or sexually assaulted.”
Prosecutors have painted a disturbing image of the siblings’ alleged sample of rapes by which “they pin their victims down” and “forcibly have intercourse with them.” One witness advised the feds they “couldn’t really feel their limbs” after solely ingesting half of what they believed to be an alcoholic beverage.
The case marked a stunning fall from grace for Tal and Oren, who as soon as catered to superstar clientele and in 2019 helped dealer the sale of a record-setting $240 million penthouse overlooking Central Park.
Prosecutors additionally disclosed Friday that they’ll be handing over a “substantial” trove of proof to the brothers’ legal professionals, together with knowledge obtained from iCloud, Instagram and courting app accounts and seized from cellphones and laptops.
Among the many most damning items of proof, in accordance with the feds, is video seized from Tal’s condo exhibiting two of the brothers sexually assaulting a lady who was “incapacitated.”
Choose Valerie Caproni set a Jan. 5, 2026 trial date for all three brothers on prices that might put them behind bars for 15 years to life if convicted.
Friday’s arraignment listening to had been pushed again per week after Florida-based legal professionals for the Alexander twins Oren and Alon mentioned they wanted extra time to discover bringing in attorneys from New York.
“I believed there was going to be New York counsel?” Choose Caproni requested the protection attorneys on Friday.
Oren’s lawyer Richard Klugh — who bizarrely argued in January that the married new dad must be launched as a result of “there have been no extra orgies!” — responded that he was “actively pursuing” including a Huge Apple lawyer to the staff, however that he can be staying on the case as effectively.
After the listening to ended, the Alexander brothers’ mother and father, Orly and Shlomy, could possibly be seen huddling within the courthouse hallway with New York Metropolis protection lawyer Arthur Aidala, who lately has represented movie producer Harvey Weinstein, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell, and others in high-profile legal trials.
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