{"id":99578,"date":"2026-01-14T01:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99578\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:55:26","slug":"ny-judge-tells-alexander-brother-engagement-isnt-proof-he-pulled-out-of-alleged-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99578\/","title":{"rendered":"NY judge tells Alexander brother engagement isn’t proof he pulled out of alleged sex trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge on Monday shot down a request to absolve one of the multimillionaire Alexander brothers<\/a> of sex trafficking allegations based on his engagement, finding that his abandonment of the \u201csingle life,\u201d as he\u2019d described it, did not prove he\u2019d washed his hands of drugging and gang raping women with his brothers.<\/p>\n

Alon Alexander, 37, who\u2019s headed to trial in Manhattan next week alongside his twin, Oren, and their older brother, Tal, 38, had argued that his purported decision to maintain \u201ca monogamous lifestyle\u201d with his then-fianc\u00e9e in 2019 served as proof he withdrew from an alleged sex trafficking conspiracy.<\/p>\n

The three are facing potential life sentences if convicted of a host of sex trafficking charges<\/a> that allege they subjected women and teenage girls up and down the East Coast to sexual assault in depraved gang rape sessions from 2002 through 2021.<\/p>\n

Alon\u2019s lawyers had asked Manhattan Federal Court Judge Valerie Caproni to acquit him of the top count<\/a> or, alternatively, deny the Manhattan U.S. attorney\u2019s motion to bar him from presenting evidence of his engagement and subsequent marriage.<\/p>\n

In an eight-page decision, the judge ruled against him on both requests, partly finding he\u2019d failed to grapple with the nuances of a sex trafficking conspiracy. Alon had contended that by getting down on one knee in 2019, he\u2019d withdrawn from \u201cthe single life,\u201d in effect abandoning the conduct he\u2019s accused of engaging in for two more years.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticipation in the alleged criminal conspiracy is not comparable or akin to participation in \u2018the single life,\u2019 however one may normally understand that phrase. There are plenty of single men who engage in sexual activity without trafficking, drugging, or raping women and girls,\u201d the judge wrote in a footnote.<\/p>\n

\u201c[There] is nothing about the mere transition from \u2018single\u2019 to \u2018engaged\u2019 that clearly indicates that Defendant withdrew himself from the conspiracy, or that he would cease helping his brothers accomplish the goals of the conspiracy \u2014 even if his participation in the scheme no longer involved him having sex (consensual or otherwise) with women that were not his fianc\u00e9e.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jury selection in the case is set to begin on Tuesday, Jan. 20. All three brothers have pleaded not guilty to charges laid out in the original December 2024 indictment and four superseding indictments, the last filed just days ago. They are being detained at Brooklyn\u2019s Metropolitan Detention Center, having failed to convince a judge their astronomical bond offers<\/a> should allow them to await trial from home.<\/p>\n

Tal and Oren Alexander, prior to their indictment, worked as real estate agents<\/a> for the ultrarich at the firm Official Partners. Alon served as an executive at a family-owned private security firm, Kent Security.<\/p>\n

\"OrenOren Alexander and Tal Alexander speak at a panel at the Rockstars of Real Estate Event hosted by Editor-in-Chief of DETAILS Magazine Dan Peres on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Amy Sussman\/Invision for DETAILS Magazine\/AP Images)<\/p>\n

The feds allege the brothers\u2019 unlimited financial means enabled them to abuse at least 60 women within the decades-long conspiracy, many of whom have levied allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault and campaigns of harassment to silence them in related litigation.<\/p>\n

To establish he withdrew from the alleged conspiracy<\/a> in his dismissal bid that failed Monday, Alon had to show he clearly communicated to his brothers that he no longer intended to facilitate the procuring and transporting of women nor provide financial help or drugs, the judge wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of Defendant\u2019s proffered evidence regarding his engagement comes close to suggesting as much,\u201d Caproni\u2019s blistering decision read.<\/p>\n

The judge said evidence she considered in her chambers in December confirmed Alon had never told his brothers \u2014 nor \u201cthe world,\u201d as he\u2019d claimed \u2014 that he was through with the alleged operation. His claims to the contrary were based on inadmissible hearsay, she wrote.<\/p>\n

The judge noted that it was conceivable evidence at trial would support his claim that he\u2019d made clear to his brothers he was done with the alleged conspiracy years before it allegedly ended. If so, she said she\u2019d revisit his request to mention it to jurors when she charges them before deliberations.<\/p>\n

The Daily News reached out to Alon Alexander\u2019s attorney for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge on Monday shot down a request to absolve one of the multimillionaire Alexander brothers of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[266,85,9,24,12,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-99578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-staten-island","15":"tag-staten-island-headlines","16":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}