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Alexander brothers sentenced to 30 years in sex trafficking case

The Independent·Larry Neumeister·about 5 hours ago
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Three brothers who exploited their wealth and access to luxury real estate to drug and rape dozens of women were sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni handed down the sentence for Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — known collectively as the Alexander Brothers — after 11 accusers confronted them in court. Some of the women choked up as they described how the assaults stole their innocence and left them haunted by nightmares and fearing men.

“It took one night, only a few hours, one invitation to completely wreck the girl I once was,” one woman, using a pseudonym to protect her identity, said as she stood at a lectern just feet from the brothers in a Manhattan courtroom.

Twins Oren and Alon, 39, and Tal Alexander, 40, were convicted in March of sex trafficking. None of the brothers testified during the trial, but each spoke Tuesday before they were sentenced.

Oren and Tal Alexander speak at a panel at the Rockstars of Real Estate Event in New York., on Sept.…

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