Alexander Brothers Found Guilty in Massive Sex Trafficking Case, Could Face Life in Prison

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The verdict comes after a five-week federal trial during which Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander all declined to testify

Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander (l to r)
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The jurors in the federal case against the Alexander brothers have delivered their verdict in one of the largest sex trafficking cases ever brought by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander were found guilty on all counts they each faced by the jury, who rendered their decision on Monday, March 9, after three days of deliberation.

The verdict is the latest blow to three brothers, who were once social fixtures in Miami, New York and Aspen after finding success and great wealth in the luxury real-estate market.

That all came crashing down, however, as women began to come forward alleging they had been drugged and then sexually assaulted by one, two or all three of the siblings.

Oren, Alon and Tal have long denied the allegations, and had entered not guilty pleas to all charges at their federal trial as their lawyers suggested that those women accusing the brothers had nefarious intentions.

They will now return to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while they await sentencing in the case, which has been scheduled for Aug. 6.

The jury — which consisted of six men and six women — deliberated on 10 counts in total, including sex trafficking, conspiracy and sexual abuse, though not all defendants were charged with every count.

The three of them were charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion after being accused of trafficking "Bela Koval" in 2016.

Tal faced additional counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion after he was accused of trafficking Lindsey Acree in 2011 and "Maya Miller" in 2014.

Alon and Tal were charged with sex trafficking a minor in 2009 and all three were charged with coercion after prosecutors accused them of inducing Koval to travel across state lines to engage in unlawful sexual activity.

Alon and Oren were charged with aggravated sexual abuse by force or intoxicant as well as sexual abuse of a physically incapacitated victim after being accused of forcing Rhonda Stone to commit a sex act after administering a drug or intoxicant in 2012.

Oren was additionally charged with sexual exploitation of a minor, "Amelia Rosen," in 2009.

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The jury was instructed to determine the guilt or innocence of each brother individually and not as a whole in the 48-page jury instruction sheet distributed and read in court by the judge prior to deliberations, a copy of which was obtained by PEOPLE.

Authorities claim that the brothers' criminal activities extend all the way back to their high school days, and said that the three brothers grew emboldened.

The three are accused of videotaping nonconsensual encounters and trafficking women to places like the Hamptons and Mexico.

They were arrested by police in Miami during a predawn raid of their multimillion-dollar properties on Dec. 11, 2024.

The three are also still facing dozens of civil lawsuits filed by their accusers, and Oren and Alon are facing additional charges of sexual battery in a separate criminal case in Florida.

The civil lawsuits are “examples of unsupported accusations by women demanding untold amounts of money, who did not file a police complaint, did not seek medical attention and did not report physical injuries,” Alon’s attorney Howard Srebnick previously told PEOPLE.

As for the federal criminal case, Srebnick claimed that Alon passed a lie detector test and “truthfully declared that he never drugged any woman, nor had sex with any woman who he believed was drugged.”

Joel Denaro and Edward O’Donnell, the defense lawyers for Oren and Alon in the Florida criminal case, previously told PEOPLE their clients are falsely accused by prosecutors, personal-injury attorneys and opportunists looking for money and attention.

"Not one accuser had gone to any law enforcement agency to report these allegations against the Brothers," the lawyers said. "Every single accuser's Personal injury attorney, who split any financial award with them, are the ones who contacted law enforcement. Somehow they all came forward at the same time after they were apparently raped 8 to 20 years ago. Zombies have awoken or it was the sophisticated social media campaign the injury attorneys ran to solicit girls who can now say sex with the brothers was non-consensual. Consensual is worthless, non-consensual is worth millions."

The brothers could now face up to life in prison.