Prosecutors seeking life sentences for real estate brokers, brother convicted of sex trafficking - BERITAJA

Federal prosecutors successful New York are seeking life sentences for 2 erstwhile luxury existent property brokers and their brother, who were convicted earlier this twelvemonth of utilizing their power to supplier and sexually maltreatment women complete the people of respective years, according to tribunal documents.

Twins Oren and Alon Alexander, and their relative Tal, “have been convicted of activity crimes of bonzer magnitude,” prosecutors pinch the U.S. Attorney’s Office successful Manhattan wrote successful a sentencing memorandum revenge Wednesday.

“They spent years designing, executing, and perfecting their playbook of luring victims pinch promises of luxury, drugging victims truthful they could not resist, and past forcibly raping them,” prosecutors wrote.

The brothers were recovered blameworthy of 10 counts of engaging successful a yearslong conspiracy of rape, activity trafficking, activity maltreatment and intersexual exploitation. They pleaded not blameworthy but were convicted successful April aft a proceedings successful which 11 accusers testified.

One accuser testified that Alon Alexander drugged and raped her aft a nighttime retired astatine a New York City club. She told the tribunal that aft being fixed a drink, her “body started to sway.”

She testified that she woke up naked connected a furniture pinch Alon Alexander, who did not person immoderate apparel on, opinionated complete her.

“I tried to get retired of the furniture a fewer times, but Alon kept pushing maine backmost down,” she said. “Finally, he sat down connected the bed, and I was capable to get up, and I said, ‘I don’t want to person activity pinch you,’ and he said, ‘You already did.’”

Oren and Tal Alexander were powerful luxury existent property brokers. Prosecutors said the brothers utilized their wealthiness and power to prey connected women and coerce them into activity acts.

In arguing for a life sentence, prosecutors wrote successful Wednesday’s filing that complete 70 women came guardant pinch “harrowing accounts of battle that stripped them of their dignity and autonomy.”

Attorneys for the brothers successful a sentencing submission revenge Tuesday said that the brothers are innocent.

The brothers will each inquire for a condemnation of 15 years, the defense attorneys wrote, which is the minimum condemnation nether immoderate of the charges of which they were convicted.

The defense attorneys wrote that each the 3 brothers were competitory pinch each different and others erstwhile it came to making love women, and that successful the years earlier being charged, “they engaged successful behaviour that was, astatine times, insensitive toward the feelings of definite women.”

“But Alon, Oren and Tal steadfastly support their complete innocence of these atrocious charges,” the defense attorneys wrote. “At nary clip did Alon, Oren aliases Tal rape aliases sexually battle different person.”

Sentencing is group for Oct. 27.