Ten women testified that three wealthy brothers drugged and attacked them. Here's what a federal jury must decide.

"Ten women, all testifying under pseudonyms, told jurors they were raped - sometimes through violence, sometimes after being drugged senseless, sometimes by more than one brother at once. None called the police. Prosecutors have argued that there was too much corroborating evidence, too much genuine pain in the women's words for their accounts to be false."

"All three brothers are charged with conspiring to sex traffic four women who testified they were lured with something of value (a Hamptons beach getaway), only to be drugged or overpowered and then raped. The youngest testified that she was drugged and raped at a Hamptons party by two brothers and two other men in 2009."

"Defense lawyers countered that the sex was consensual, and that the women later invented or imagined stories of violence and violation out of regret or in hopes of a lawsuit payday. After testimony by more than 30 prosecution witnesses and three witnesses for the defense, a six-man, six-woman jury must now agree on a complex, ten-count indictment."

Three brothers—Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander—are on trial for federal sex trafficking involving ten women who testified under pseudonyms about being raped. The women described incidents involving violence, drugging, and multiple perpetrators across various luxury locations between 2008 and 2021. Prosecutors presented over 30 witnesses and emphasized corroborating evidence and the credibility of victims' accounts. Defense attorneys argued the sexual encounters were consensual and that women fabricated or misremembered events due to regret or litigation hopes. A twelve-person jury must reach unanimous verdicts on a complex ten-count indictment, including sex trafficking conspiracy charges that could result in life imprisonment for the defendants.

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