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Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Huge glimmer of hope for playboy 'gang rapist' twin brothers as alleged accomplice is exonerated
The real estate magnate twins accused of raping a Miami woman have been offered a glimmer of hope in their court case after their alleged accomplice was cleared. Oren and Alon Alexander are each charged with sexually assaulting a woman known in court records as 'MW' on New Year's Eve 2016, and real estate broker Ohad Fisherman was initially charged with aiding them by holding the woman down. But the charges against Fisherman have now been dropped after he produced a time-stamped video showing that he was on board a boat in Miami Beach very close to the time of the alleged assault. Fisherman's video was uploaded to Facebook at around 9pm that night, showing him cruising on the water. Prosecutors said the video was a valid alibi. 'We determined in good faith that we could not prove the case against Ohad Fisherman beyond and to the exclusion of all reasonable doubt,' the state attorney in Miami-Dade County, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, wrote in a media release. 'The defendant's presence at the scene of the crime is an essential element of proof and this video evidence casts doubt on that proof.' Fisherman's lawyer Jeffrey Sloman said his client had been 'totally exonerated' in a surprise move which came just one day before jury selection was set to start. It marks the latest twist in the myriad court cases against real estate magnates Oren and Tal Alexander, and their brother Alexander, who socializes in the same high-flying circles in Miami, Los Angeles and New York City. The trio were charged with sex trafficking offenses including drugging, raping and sexually assaulting dozens of women from around 2010 to 2021, the US Attorney's Office announced in December. Additional sex trafficking charges were also brought in May after prosecutors in Manhattan said they spoke with more than 60 people who claim they were raped by at least one of the brothers. Oren and Tal were already charged with using their wealth and influence to rape and sexually abuse women from 2002 to 2021. No date was immediately set for the men to be arraigned. They previously pleaded not guilty, and all three are being held without bail. The superseding indictment filed in May added five new charges related to four alleged victims, including one female who was under 18 years old. An attorney for the brothers, Richard Klugh, said in an email that the 'new charges, like the government´s first two factually and legally unfounded efforts, show nothing but prosecutorial overreach'. 'It is simply another swing-and-a-miss by a government that has gone off the rails in an overzealous, unwarranted pursuit,' he added. Nicholas Biase, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York, said: 'We will decline to comment beyond our filings to the court.
New York Times
07-07-2025
- New York Times
A Day Before Trial, Alleged Accomplice of Alexander Brothers Is Cleared
Ohad Fisherman, a Miami real estate broker who was accused of participating in an alleged sexual assault in 2016, had the charge dropped on Monday after he produced time-stamped video evidence showing that he was aboard a boat very close to the same time a woman said she had been attacked. The surprise dismissal came a day before Mr. Fisherman, 39, was to appear in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on one count of sexual battery. It was another twist in the sprawling state and federal cases against the real estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon Alexander, all of whom were arrested in December on federal sex trafficking charges. Oren and Tal Alexander were real estate brokers behind some of the flashiest deals in both New York and Miami, and Alon Alexander, Oren's twin, regularly socialized with them. The three brothers were accused of using their wealth and status to lure, drug and then sexually assault dozens of women, according to a federal indictment. The men now face both state and federal charges stemming from accusations made by multiple women dating back to 2009. They have pleaded not guilty to all charges. Prosecutors had said that Mr. Fisherman was an accomplice of Oren and Alon Alexander in one of the state charges. Mr. Fisherman, who maintained his innocence, was accused of holding down a woman, known only as M.W. in court records, while Oren and Alon Alexander took turns assaulting her on New Year's Eve 2016. Mr. Fisherman surrendered to the authorities days after the Alexanders were arrested in the federal sex trafficking case. He told prosecutors that he was on a boat cruising the waters of Miami Beach at the time of the alleged assault, and produced a video that was uploaded to Facebook around 9 p.m. that night showing him on the water. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CBS News
07-07-2025
- CBS News
Charge dropped against Alexander brothers' friend Ohad Fisherman, new alibi evidence cited
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced Monday that her office will not move forward with the prosecution of Ohad Fisherman, who had been charged in connection with a 2016 sexual battery case, due to newly surfaced alibi evidence. Fisherman was previously charged with one count of sexual battery involving multiple perpetrators, accused of aiding and assisting Oren and Alon Alexander in the alleged assault of a woman identified as M.W. nearly nine years ago. Facebook video cited in alibi defense "Part of the evidence learned by the State subsequent to the filing of this case was a Facebook post which included a video purportedly placing Fisherman on a boat cruising on the water in Miami Beach at sunset on New Year's Eve 2016, very close in time to the sexual battery incident," Fernandez Rundle said in a written statement. The video, according to Facebook records, was posted around 9 p.m. that night. On July 2, 2025, Fisherman filed a notice of alibi, claiming he was "on a boat in the water somewhere along the Intercoastal Waterway" at the time of the alleged crime. "The defendant's presence at the scene of the crime is an essential element of proof and this video evidence casts doubt on that proof," Fernandez Rundle said. Case against Alexander brothers remains active "Given the prosecution's inability to conclusively disprove the alibi, we determined in good faith that we could not prove the case against Ohad Fisherman beyond and to the exclusion of all reasonable doubt, which is required by law," Fernandez Rundle said. She emphasized the decision applies only to Fisherman and does not affect the pending cases against Oren and Alon Alexander. "I want to particularly reaffirm my admiration for these victims' strength and commit once again to their cause and the remaining cases against the Alexander brothers," she said. Fernandez Rundle added that, due to the active nature of the remaining prosecutions, the State Attorney's Office is not at liberty to discuss the matter further at this time.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Yahoo
Alexander brothers, friend, seek dismissal of sex crime case, say state hiding evidence
A friend of Miami Beach's notorious Alexander brothers — charged with taking part in a rape almost a decade ago — asked a judge to dismiss the case this week, saying that 'critical evidence' in the case was lost, destroyed or never preserved by state prosecutors. Ohad Fisherman, a 39-year-old friend of twins Oren and Alon Alexander, is accused of pinning a woman down at a Miami Beach apartment on New Year's Eve 2016, while the brothers took turns raping her. His attorneys also say his accuser contradicted her original statement about Fisherman to police last year when she said during a deposition last month that she wasn't held down during the assault. Oren and Alon — one who gained wealth and shot to fame as a high-end real estate executive, the other in the family's security business — are also named in the dismissal motion. But the duo are not expected to return to Miami in time for a trial that could begin before the end of the month. That's because on top of the state charges, they're also facing a host of weighty federal sex crime charges including sex trafficking and are jailed in Brooklyn, New York. Oren has also been charged by Miami-Dade state prosecutors with two other sexual assaults on Miami Beach. READ MORE: She sued the Alexander brothers for rapes. Would she have to use her name? In the motion filed before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lody Jean, Fisherman's attorneys say the state had the opportunity during the Alexander brothers' Miami Beach arrest in December to secure the evidence that is now under the control of federal prosecutors. And, they say, if federal prosecutors in New York are unwilling to share the evidence, the case should be dismissed. 'The sovereign district of New York is notorious for not collaborating with other prosecutors' offices,' said Fisherman defense attorney Jeffrey Sloman, who once served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. 'The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office is learning this lesson the hard way.' Ed Griffith, spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, said the state will address the motion during Monday's hearing. Jean ruled in a separate earlier order that the investigations into the alleged sex crimes by Miami Beach Police and federal prosecutors were separate and that the feds weren't obligated to turn over the potential evidence. In a joint statement, Alexander brothers' defense attorneys Eddie O'Donnell IV and Joel Denaro called the arrest of their clients a publicity stunt and said they're trying to get them released to stand trial in state court. 'The [Miami-Dade] prosecutors have used the New York federal government to shield us from getting our clients' electronics and getting them to trial,' the attorneys said. 'They're now using the accuser's attorneys to shield us from seeing the accuser's phones. The jury will be scratching their heads as to how these charges were brought.' The 33-page motion filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court by Fisherman defense attorney Juan Michelen says the trio's constitutional rights were violated by state prosecutors who have purposely withheld video evidence and meta data from cellphones that could exonerate them. The motion says that the woman who says she was raped at a luxurious Miami Beach apartment on New Year's Eve 2016, and who is referred to as M.W. in court documents, told police in her original statement that she believed the brothers videotaped the incident. Defense attorneys are also seeking video from a boat excursion in South Florida early in the evening that they believe was taken the same night that the woman says she was raped. State prosecutors have said in court they they don't have access to the video, which defense attorneys say could show the trio was somewhere else at the time of the alleged sexual assault. Michelen says in the motion that the three men have been 'denied due process.' The twins, 37, were rounded up from their Miami Beach homes in December by police and federal agents and charged with three sexual assaults and rape in Miami Beach along with the federal counts. Also arrested and charged that day was their 38-year-old brother Tal Alexander, who is only facing the federal charges. Miami-Dade state prosecutors have accused Fisherman — anointed the 'hummus hunk' by a New York magazine for his foray into the chick pea industry — of only taking part in a single assault on Miami Beach and have not accused him of penetration. He was released on bond not long after his arrest and isn't required to wear an ankle monitor. Named in the original charging documents on Dec. 11 when the Alexander brothers were taken into custody, Fisherman turned himself in a week later after returning from his honeymoon in Japan. State and federal prosecutors say the three Alexander brothers used their fame and wealth to lure women to their apartments or on trips around the country, even outside the U.S. Then, investigators say, the brothers often drugged the women before raping them. More than two dozen women have also filed civil lawsuits asking for millions of dollars in damages. According to court filings, M.W. told police in October that she was at a hotel on South Beach with friends when she received a text from Alon — whom she had met previously in New York — inviting her to a barbecue at his apartment. She said Alon also sent a picture of people having a good time on the balcony. When she got there, Alon greeted her in the lobby and the two took an elevator directly up to his apartment. But no one was there. The woman told police she was sitting on the foot rest of the bed when Fisherman 'came from behind and held her shoulders' as the twins discussed who would go first. Then, she said, the Alexander brothers removed her shorts and bathing suit bottom and took turns penetrating her while wearing condoms. She told police she said, 'Please, no,' twice. She told police Fisherman never penetrated her. But under questioning from Oren's defense attorney O'Donnell, the woman made no mention of Fisherman taking part in the alleged sexual battery or even of anyone pinning her down as it was happening. At one point while discussing the possibility of one of the twins videotaping the incident on a cellphone, O'Donnell asks M.W. if it's correct that nobody held her down while she was on the bed. 'Correct,' she replies.
