Ex-luxury real estate brokers and brother to be sentenced on federal sex trafficking charges

Two former luxury real estate brokers and their brother are scheduled to be sentenced in a New York City courtroom Tuesday, seven months after they were convicted of drugging and raping women in a sex trafficking ring.

Federal prosecutors are seeking life sentences for Oren and Alon Alexander, a pair of former powerful real estate brokers, and their brother, Tal.

Attorneys for the brothers, who have asserted their innocence, are seeking 15-year sentences for each defendant.

The men were found guilty in March of 10 counts, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, after a trial that included testimony