A federal judge on Monday shot down a request to absolve one of the multimillionaire Alexander brothers of sex trafficking allegations based on his engagement, finding that his abandonment of the “single life,” as he’d described it, did not prove he’d washed his hands of drugging and gang raping women with his brothers.
Alon Alexander, 37, who’s 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 “a monogamous lifestyle” with his then-fiancée in 2019 served as proof he withdrew from an alleged sex trafficking conspiracy.
The three are facing potential life sentences if convicted of a host of sex trafficking charges 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.
Alon’s lawyers had asked Manhattan Federal Court Judge Valerie Caproni to acquit him of the top count or, alternatively, deny the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s motion to bar him from presenting evidence of his engagement and subsequent marriage.
In an eight-page decision, the judge ruled against him on both requests, partly finding he’d failed to grapple with the nuances of a sex trafficking conspiracy. Alon had contended that by getting down on one knee in 2019, he’d withdrawn from “the single life,” in effect abandoning the conduct he’s accused of engaging in for two more years.
“Participation in the alleged criminal conspiracy is not comparable or akin to participation in ‘the single life,’ 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,” the judge wrote in a footnote.
“[There] is nothing about the mere transition from ‘single’ to ‘engaged’ that clearly indicates that Defendant withdrew himself from the conspiracy, or that he would cease helping his brothers accomplish the goals of the conspiracy — even if his participation in the scheme no longer involved him having sex (consensual or otherwise) with women that were not his fiancée.”
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’s Metropolitan Detention Center, having failed to convince a judge their astronomical bond offers should allow them to await trial from home.
Tal and Oren Alexander, prior to their indictment, worked as real estate agents for the ultrarich at the firm Official Partners. Alon served as an executive at a family-owned private security firm, Kent Security.
The feds allege the brothers’ 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.
To establish he withdrew from the alleged conspiracy 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.
“None of Defendant’s proffered evidence regarding his engagement comes close to suggesting as much,” Caproni’s blistering decision read.
The judge said evidence she considered in her chambers in December confirmed Alon had never told his brothers — nor “the world,” as he’d claimed — that he was through with the alleged operation. His claims to the contrary were based on inadmissible hearsay, she wrote.
The judge noted that it was conceivable evidence at trial would support his claim that he’d made clear to his brothers he was done with the alleged conspiracy years before it allegedly ended. If so, she said she’d revisit his request to mention it to jurors when she charges them before deliberations.
The Daily News reached out to Alon Alexander’s attorney for comment.
