FBI Found Explicit Hard Drive at Tal Alexander’s NYC Apt

A search of Tal Alexander’s Manhattan apartment turned up a hard drive with videos adding to the rape and sexual assault allegations against his brothers, according to federal prosecutors.

Prosecutors said in a letter to Judge Valerie Caproni that videos and pictures show Oren and Alon Alexander, along with unidentified third parties, “engaged in sexual contact” with women who appear to be intoxicated. The hard drive was recovered during a raid the day he was arrested at his parents’ waterfront home in Bal Harbour, according to the letter.

The Alexander brothers — former top brokers Oren and Tal and private security executive Alon — were indicted on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking charges on Dec. 11. All three will have their first hearings in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, Jan. 15.

Two judges in Florida’s southern district denied Tal and Alon’s bail proposals and ordered they be detained until and through their trial. All three brothers are being transferred to New York.

In their letter, prosecutors state that in multiple videos, the women were initially unaware they were being recorded and became upset or tried to hide from the camera once they realized they were being filmed.

At least one of the brothers and another man “physically manipulated the women’s bodies to have sex with them while the women did not actively participate in the sexual activity or turned away,” the prosecutors wrote.

“This evidence underscores the depraved nature of the defendants’ conduct and the immense danger they present,” the letter states. The hard drive also included photos showing Oren, Alon and other people with women “in states of intoxication and undress.”

Deanna Paul, an attorney for Tal, pushed back on prosecutors in a statement.

”The government points to some videos as a reason to hold Tal and his brothers in custody without bail while it builds its case,” Paul said. “There’s no allegation that the videos show anything nonconsensual or illegal in any way.”

Tal rents an apartment at the luxury supertall 432 Park Avenue. He once shared the apartment with Oren, and the hard drive was found in a closet that seemed to include items that belonged to Oren, according to the filing. Tal shares the apartment with his wife, Arielle Kogut.

The FBI planned to arrest Tal in New York, but he took a last-minute flight to Miami the day before, prosecutors said in court.

Tal’s apartment was previously referenced in court. During one of Alon’s pre-trial detention hearings, attorney Howard Srebnick pushed for his client’s release on house arrest in South Florida. Their offer included allowing Alon to stay at Tal’s apartment, described as “on a higher floor with no balconies,” during his trial in New York.

In addition to the federal charges, the office of Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle charged Oren and Alon with sexual battery the same day the federal indictment was unsealed. One or more of the three brothers also face civil lawsuits that allege they drugged and raped women in New York, Florida and Colorado.

Oren, Alon and Tal have denied the allegations. A date for the federal trial has not yet been set.

This article has been updated with a statement from an attorney for Tal Alexander.