Three brothers convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting women in New York and Miami were each sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Manhattan federal judge, seven months after their convictions.
Three brothers convicted of exploiting their access to wealth and high society in New York and Miami to drug and rape women were each sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in prison.
Twins Alon Alexander and Oren Alexander, both 39, and Tal Alexander, 40, were sentenced by US District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan, seven months after being convicted in a six-week trial of multiple sex crimes including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Prosecutors had sought life sentences, while the brothers had asked for the mandatory minimum of 15 years. Oren and Tal Alexander co-founded the luxury real estate brokerage Official, while Alon Alexander was an executive at the family's security company, Kent Security.
Prosecutors said the brothers preyed on women and girls for at least 14 years, with more than 70 women saying they were assaulted by one or more of the brothers in locations including Manhattan, the Hamptons and Aspen, Colorado. In one instance cited by prosecutors, three girls celebrating their final school year at an Aspen nightclub in January 2017 were drugged, enticed to a five-star hotel for a promised after-party and assaulted. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement from the US Attorney's office in Manhattan that with the sentencing, the brothers would finally face the consequences they deserved for the harm they inflicted.
Reuters reporting confirms the sentences, the judge, the ages and the competing sentencing requests, and the prosecution's account of the scale of the offending. The judge's description of the brothers' conduct as monstrous is reported as coming from multiple media accounts of the hearing rather than a direct transcript, so it is attributed rather than quoted as verified court record, and the brothers' lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The sentences close the trial phase of a case that has already reshaped the brothers' business world, but appeals and any further proceedings will determine whether 30 years stands as the final term.