NEW YORK– Prominent real estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon have been charged in New York with sex trafficking.
Authorities say they ran a sex trafficking scheme between 2010 and 2021 that targeted dozens of women.
Officials from the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York hold a press 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 multi-state investigation. Watch live here on CBS News Miami.
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Oren and Tal Alexander are the founders of the luxury real estate company Official, which has offices in Manhattan and Miami Beach. Alon Alexander is Oren’s twin brother and worked at the family’s private security company.
“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 said Wednesday. “Oren and Tal Alexander mainly used their prominent positions in the real estate sector to attract women to events and parties. At those parties, and sometimes afterwards, the women were sexually abused by one or more of the defendants.”
According to an eight-page indictment filed ahead of the press conferences, the brothers are accused of raping and sexually assaulting multiple women “to whom they had provided material benefits, including domestic and international travel to vacation destinations, luxury accommodations in luxury hotels and vacation properties, and access to other luxury experiences and events.”
According to the indictment, the brothers tricked and forced women to travel with them or meet them at private locations, where in some cases they allegedly drugged the women’s drinks or violently assaulted them. It also says they worked with other men to recruit their alleged victims.
Stay with this story for the latest updates as we learn more.
