The police booking photo for Alon and Oren Alexander. The twins’ family and their lawyers have proposed putting up $100 million to secure the brothers’ bail.
Alon, who has a law degree, has worked for the family’s Miami-based security firm, Kent.
U.S Assistant Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa said no conditions were “truly sufficient” to ensure community safety if the brothers were released.
The brothers, accused of gang raping women since high school, had “acted with impunity their whole lives,” Espinosa said.
Oren Alexander, 37, center, and his twin brother, Alon. Alon was denied bail by a Miami magistrate judge on Friday.
The FBI said it has identified and interviewed “approximately 42” victims since the investigation began in June. Dozens of others have come forward since the brothers’ arrest last month, Espinosa told the judge.
“That case is only getting stronger and stronger as time goes on,” she said
U.S Assistant Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa said no conditions were “truly sufficient” to ensure the brothers were not a flight risk or a danger to the community. She said that brothers, accused of g…
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The judge emphasized the possible danger of leaving the nation, particularly to Israel, where his wife is a citizen, according to the judge.
“Obviously we are disappointed that the magistrate judge was not willing to impose the conditions of release that we had proposed, including home confinement under electronic monitoring, surveilled by a private security company that is manned by former federal law enforcement officers, including the former special agent in charge of the FBI,” Howard Srebnik, the defense attorney, said following the hearing
During a hearing in federal court in Miami on Friday, his twin brother was denied bond, and prominent real estate dealer Oren Alexander will have to wait until next week to find out if he will be released from jail. The brothers had applied for bond
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