Federal prosecutors announced six additional charges against the Alexander brothers, expanding their sex trafficking investigation into Oren, Tal and Alon ahead of their 2026 trial.
In a superseding indictment filed in the Southern District of New York, authorities charged the brothers with two counts of inducement to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity, and four additional counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
The latest indictment came nearly six months to the day after federal prosecutors in New York charged the brothers with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. They were arrested in Miami in December and transferred to the Southern District earlier this year.
The charges describe allegations involving six victims as early as 2009. One of the new charges, brought against Tal and Alon, involves a victim who was a minor at the time.
With the new filing, all three brothers are facing five total counts related to sex trafficking allegations. Alon and Tal are the subject of one count. And Tal alone is charged with three counts.
Attorneys for Tal, Deanna Paul and Milton Williams, said in a statement that the superseding indictment “changes nothing” and “does not include conduct that amounts to federal sex trafficking.”
An attorney for Oren dismissed the additional charges in a statement, saying the government’s move was “no more sound than their first two.”
“It is simply another swing-and-a-miss by a government that has gone off the rails in an overzealous, unwarranted pursuit,” the attorney said.
The brothers have been in a federal detention center in Brooklyn since January. Earlier this year, Judge Valerie Caproni denied the brothers’ request for release on house arrest, siding with prosecutors who argued they were a flight risk and could pose a danger to the community.
Over the course of their bail hearings, prosecutors described some of the evidence against the Alexanders, including interviews with more than 60 women who allege they were attacked by one or more of the brothers and video evidence found on a hard drive seized during a raid on Tal’s former Manhattan apartment.
Oren and Alon are also facing state rape charges, along with their family friend, Ohad Fisherman. Prosecutors in Miami-Dade County charged Oren with three counts of sexual battery, while Alon and Fisherman are charged in one count.
Fisherman’s trial is slated to begin in June. Oren and Alon will be tried in a separate proceeding.
Tal, Oren and Alon’s federal trial is scheduled to begin in January 2026, though it’s unclear whether the new charges will change the timeline.
Along with the criminal charges, dozens of women are suing one or more of the Alexanders accusing them of sexual assault. Most of the women filed their lawsuits in New York, where a city law opened a new window for survivors of gender-motivated violence to sue their alleged perpetrators regardless of when the attack occurred. The window expired at the end of February.
This article has been updated with statements from attorneys for Tal and Oren.
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