After being found guilty on all charges of sex-trafficking earlier this year, the Alexander brothers were formally sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday, the culmination of a high-profile investigation and trial related to numerous sex crimes and abuses against women spanning multiple years.
The 39-year-old twins Oren and Alon Alexander, along with their 40-year-old brother Tal, continued to maintain their innocence throughout the sentencing process, despite statements from about a dozen women.
According to CNN, one victim under the pseudonym Katie Moore, stated, “These men spent years treating women and girls as though our lives, body, voices, humanity meant nothing. But we are not disposable and they are not untouchable.”
Another woman using the pseudonym Isa Brooks said she was raped by two of the brothers and their friend when she was just 16 years old, according to CNN.
“I cry for the innocence of that terrified 16-year-old and stand for her today,” Brooks said. “Their eyes went black. As if I was being mauled by animals.”
“I grieve the girl that I was,” she said.
Initially, the Alexander brothers’ counsel asked the court for the minimum sentence of 15 years of incarceration. In the defense’s sentencing memorandum, the brothers’ lawyers argued that—in the context of accepting the government’s charges—the brothers had “ceased any of the charged conduct as early as 2017 for Alon, 2016 for Tal, and 2021 for Oren.”
Several letters were submitted by the Alexander brothers’ team, ones written by friends, family and acquaintances asking for Judge Valerie Caproni to show mercy in the brothers’ sentencing.
Some senders included the brothers’ aunt and uncle, Alon’s ex-girlfriend, a client of the family’s security company and a rabbi. All of them painted the brothers as dedicated family-men.
Despite the requests for leniency, Caproni showed no remorse for the brothers. The weeks of listening to victim statements led to the judge calling the brothers’ conduct “shameful and degenerate.”
“Your crimes wreaked havoc on their lives. It has caused long lasting damage to them. Many have significant problems trusting people,” Caproni said, reported by CNN.
ABC News reported that defense attorney, Howard Srebnick, conceded that the brothers could be “obnoxious” and their conduct “inappropriate,” during the closing statements. But he argued that “nobody was being assaulted, nobody had been trafficked.”
The case began in late 2024 to early 2025, where the U.S. government accused the brothers of operating “a long-running sex trafficking scheme, as part of which they raped and sexually assaulted women to whom they had provided ‘material benefits,’ including domestic and international travel to vacation destinations, luxury accommodations at high-end hotels and vacation properties, and access to other luxury experiences and events,” according to a filed indictment.
Oren and Tal worked as brokers for Douglas Elliman from around 2008 to 2022, while their brother Alon was involved with their family’s security company, Kent Security Services. The twins later left Douglas Elliman to launch their own luxury real estate firm, the Alexander Group.
Although the brothers have continuously claimed their innocence against the criminal charges, they did admit that “they engaged in conduct that was, at times, insensitive toward the feelings of certain women at certain times, that was competitive with each other and others when it came to dating women, and that as a result, certain people maintained negative feelings and opinions about them,” according to their sentencing memorandum.
When handing down the brothers’ sentences, ABC News reported that Caproni admonished the brothers for continuing to claim their innocence.
“You did not have to stand up and say you’ve never raped anyone,” Caproni said, according to ABC News. “That’s a lie and you know it.”
The Alexander brothers are expected to appeal the conviction, according to multiple media reports.
