'Significant exposure': FL real estate barons could lose assets to sex trafficking victims

Trigger warning: This article includes references to and descriptions of sexual assault.

Florida-based real estate tycoon Shlomy Alexander and his wife Orly own a vast collection of multimillion-dollar properties in multiple states. But a chunk of their portfolio could be liquidated if their sons are found guilty in a sweeping sex trafficking case.

The Miami Herald reported Saturday that the Alexander family may end up losing some of their pricey homes if their sons — Oren, Alon and Tal — are convicted on federal charges of rape and sexual assault. The brothers are accused by approximately 40 women of drugging and raping them over roughly a decade. They are the heirs of both the celebrity real estate empire as well as the Kent Security company, which Shlomy and Orly founded in 1982 after emigrating from Israel.

Ft. Lauderdale-based attorney Sigrid McCawley, who represented hundreds of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's victims, said the Alexander family's properties could be casualties of both criminal and civil penalties imposed by the court if their sons are found guilty.

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"There’s significant exposure for the family assets," McCawley said.

Even if the defendants are successful in their efforts to beat the charges, Bradley Edwards — another Ft. Lauderdale criminal defense attorney — told the Herald that the Alexander family could take a significant hit to their finances in defending the three men in the high-profile federal case.

"Regardless of the outcome of the civil cases against the three brothers, the Alexanders are about to lose tens of millions of dollars defending the various criminal and civil cases," he said.

According to the indictment, the three men are accused of putting drugs in women's drinks like ecstasy, GHB, cocaine and psilocybin mushrooms before then sexually assaulting them. Investigators say Alon, Oren and Tal "physically restrained and held down their victims" while assaulting them and even "ignored screams and explicit requests to stop." If convicted, they face sentences of 15 years to life behind bars.

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