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Alexander Brothers Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Sex Trafficking Case | Crime Alert 10.29.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. I'm Sydney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: A federal courtroom in New York City delivers a major
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  Speaker 1: reckoning for three brothers once hailed as luxury real estate titans. Oren,
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  Speaker 1: Elan and Tal Alexander have each been sentenced to 30
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  Speaker 1: years in prison, months after their convictions in a high-profile
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  Speaker 1: federal sex trafficking trial. United States District Judge Valerie Caproni
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  Speaker 1: handed down the lengthy sentences on Tuesday, October 27, marking
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  Speaker 1: the end of a trial that concluded in March and
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  Speaker 1: exposed what federal prosecutors characterized as decades of predatory conduct.
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  Speaker 1: Federal prosecutors detailed the abuse in unsparing terms. In an
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  Speaker 1: official statement, United States Attorney Jamie McDonald condemned the trio,
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  Speaker 1: declaring that Elan, Oren, and Tal Alexander are convicted sex
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  Speaker 1: traffickers and serial rapists. McDonald stated that the defendants preyed
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  Speaker 1: on women and young girls, using drugs and violence to
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  Speaker 1: incapacitate them so they could rape them. The U.S. attorney
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  Speaker 1: emphasized that the defendants carried out these assaults for years,
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  Speaker 1: inflicting unspeakable harm on numerous young women while using their
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  Speaker 1: high-profile careers and social status to conceal the danger they posed.
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  Speaker 1: McDonald concluded that today's sentence makes clear that this craven,
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  Speaker 1: sinister conduct is extraordinarily egregious and will be met with
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  Speaker 1: serious punishment. Prior to their arrest, 39-year-old Oren Alexander and
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  Speaker 1: 40-year-old Tal Alexander were successful real estate brokers, while 39-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Alon Alexander worked as a security executive. but authorities revealed
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  Speaker 1: their illegal conduct dated back to high school. During trial,
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  Speaker 1: Assistant U.S. Attorney Madison Smizer argued the brothers masqueraded as
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  Speaker 1: party boys when they were really predators, using drugs, alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: and brute force to carry out rapes. The brothers have
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  Speaker 1: also been named in civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault, which
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  Speaker 1: they deny. Addressing the court during sentencing, Oren Alexander denied
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  Speaker 1: raping anyone, claiming he came of age at the time
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  Speaker 1: of the Howard Stern Show and the glorification of Playboy.
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  Speaker 1: Tal Alexander asked Judge Caprioni to sentence him to the
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  Speaker 1: same prison as his brothers. Prosecutors had sought life sentences,
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  Speaker 1: while defense attorneys requested 15 years. Then-U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton
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  Speaker 1: noted following the verdict that while the outcome cannot undo
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  Speaker 1: heinous abuse, it sends a message that New Yorkers want
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  Speaker 1: an end to sex trafficking in all communities. The case
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  Speaker 1: is featured in the Peacock docuseries The Wolves of Real Estate,
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  Speaker 1: The Alexander Brothers, where one woman stated, I didn't even
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  Speaker 1: know what to call what they did to me. Despite convictions,
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  Speaker 1: the brothers maintain innocence. In September, they hired attorney Alan Dershowitz,
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  Speaker 1: who confirmed working on their case, but denied seeking a
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  Speaker 1: presidential pardon from Donald Trump. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this. In Central Florida, an Osceola County mother faces
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  Speaker 1: four counts of child neglect without great bodily harm after
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  Speaker 1: authorities say she left four young children home alone so
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  Speaker 1: she could travel to Las Vegas. The Osceola County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Office released details outlining the case against 50-year-old Irene Miller.
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  Speaker 1: Deputies responded to Miller's residence on the night of October
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  Speaker 1: 21st after a girl called 911, reporting a dumbbell had
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  Speaker 1: fallen on her nine-year-old brother's head. Emergency personnel arrived to
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  Speaker 1: discover the injured boy alongside three siblings, ages 14, 12,
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  Speaker 1: and 11, left completely unsupervised. The boy was transported to
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  Speaker 1: a local hospital for medical treatment and discharged. When investigators
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  Speaker 1: contacted Miller, she allegedly stated she flew to Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: for work on October 18th and planned to return October 23rd.
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  Speaker 1: Miller told deputies she arranged for a babysitter to commute
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  Speaker 1: from Tampa mornings and afternoons to prepare the children for
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  Speaker 1: school and check on them, but admitted the sitter was
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  Speaker 1: not required to stay overnight. Deputies coordinated with the children's father,
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  Speaker 1: who agreed to take custody of all four minors. When
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  Speaker 1: Miller touched down in Florida on the morning of October 23rd,
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  Speaker 1: deputies were waiting at the airport. Body camera footage shared
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook shows deputies approaching Miller off the plane, escorting
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  Speaker 1: her and placing her in handcuffs before leading her to
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  Speaker 1: a patrol vehicle. It remains unclear whether Miller has entered
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  Speaker 1: a plea or retained an attorney. In Southern California, an
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  Speaker 1: educator and rabbi is charged with murder after authorities say
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  Speaker 1: he intentionally plowed his vehicle into a worker painting lines
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  Speaker 1: in a retail parking lot. According to the Ventura County
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  Speaker 1: District Attorney's Office, 35-year-old Abba Avraham Bryski of Agora Hills
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  Speaker 1: faces murder charges in the October 20 death of Nicholas Lang.
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  Speaker 1: Jail records list Bryski's occupation as an educator and rabbi.
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  Speaker 1: The fatal encounter occurred outside a Camarillo Costco around 8.30 p.m.,
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  Speaker 1: where Lang was painting stripes. Prosecutors allege Bryski drove his
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  Speaker 1: Infiniti Q60 coupe directly at Lang, intentionally striking him. Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: deputies responded at 8.37 p.m. near the gas pumps, where
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  Speaker 1: witnesses pointed out Bryski sitting inside his car. Lang, of Modesto,
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  Speaker 1: was transported to Ventura County Medical Center, where he died.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities have not disclosed a motive or if the two
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  Speaker 1: men knew each other. Ventura County District Attorney Eric Nasarenko
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  Speaker 1: called the incident a devastating and senseless loss of life,
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  Speaker 1: noting Lang was killed by someone demonstrating a shocking disregard
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  Speaker 1: for human life. In addition to murder, Bryski faces a
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  Speaker 1: weapons allegation and misdemeanor resisting. His arraignment was continued to
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  Speaker 1: November 18th. He remains held in custody without bail. For
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sydney Silvani.