Juda Engelmayer
By Juda Englemayer
With the civil and criminal scrutiny around real estate entrepreneurs Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander intensifying, it’s important to ask: what was the match that lit this fire?
The answer lies in a civil lawsuit filed by the very first accuser – against the Alexander brothers, and the cornerstone upon which much of the legal and media momentum now rests.
A newly filed memorandum from the complainant’s legal team seeks to preserve that case by invoking trauma, psychology, and narrative over contemporaneous fact. The Alexanders’ lawyers challenged that, claiming it offers no police report, no timely complaint, no forensic evidence – just emotional claims and vague timelines dating back more than a decade.
This filing isn’t just a civil pleading. It is the origin story for everything that followed: criminal charges, negative headlines, and the targeting of two entrepreneurs who had, until then, built a business and lived largely out of the spotlight.
Significantly, we don’t even know whether this particular person is a named victim in the federal criminal case – the government refuses to clarify. If not, then this entire chain reaction has been driven by a person who may not even be part of the core prosecution. At most, she could be used to smear the Alexanders as an “uncharged bad act” – a controversial prosecutorial tactic increasingly questioned by legal scholars.
We saw something similar in the case of OneTaste, where the main witness and virtually the entire government narrative was invented by an accuser who the prosecution eventually labeled an unreliable liar at the very last minute – albeit too late for my clients to fend off the mountain of negativity it produced up until then.
Context matters. Just last week, the co-defendant in the Miami criminal case – Ohad Fisherman – was fully exonerated, with prosecutors admitting to an alibi defense. Fisherman’s case was built on the same story, the same complainant. That sudden reversal raises serious doubts about the reliability of the allegations – and of those pushing them forward.
What’s more outstanding there is that Fisherman’s demonstrated alibi was confirmed with photos of him and Alon together, but no one seems to be picking up on that part of it.
Equally concerning is the political backdrop. Internal communications from Florida prosecutors have surfaced, revealing partisan motives – references to “taking down the Trumpers” and even one stating, “I’d vote for Biden if he shot Trump on Fifth Avenue.” This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political theater in a courtroom.
Meanwhile, the Alexanders are preparing to file a defamation lawsuit against The Real Deal for its role in amplifying unvetted claims and coordinating with opposing parties to damage their reputations. That filing is expected to include communications and sourcing that will reshape how this case is understood publicly.
The media has largely accepted one side of this story. But the defense is now speaking – armed with evidence, timelines, and real questions about how reputations can be destroyed on the back of unproven accusations and politically charged vendettas.
As for OneTaste, we filed and lost the bail appeal to the Second Circuit, and now preparing for sentencing in September.
For Harvey Weinstein, his Italian lawyers have successfully appealed to the Italian Ministry of Justice to open a criminal investigation into accusations that Pascal Dominini committed perjury. – a pivotal aspect of his Los Angeles conviction. The Italian court is now asking US judicial authorities to respond to the request for mutual legal assistance (rogatory) issued by the Italian Ministry of Justice.
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The brothers have been caught red-handed talking about organising parties in Mexico, organising to fly in girls and smuggle date rape drugs that’s why they are in jail. Plus they have video evidence.
Fisherman has graped 2 other women – he was just lucky that they did not want to testify.
Not sure what graped even means. Perhaps you care as much about spelling as you do about real evidence.
We need to raise the bar in terms of having concrete evidence of crimes taking place. When you scrape the surface it seems prosecutors often indict on little more than a hunch. – and then they’ll manufacture the evidence later.
The courts are so pro- prosecution that even trials with juries hold little promise these days.
We need to hold our judiciary accountable. And take back the rights of the people.
Fisherman is a perfect example of how a rush to indict destroys lives – Had Fisherman not had evidence of his boat ride at the time of the alleged crime, the prosecutors would have continued to depict him as a sexual predator.