The reality of potentially spending the next 30 years in prison began to hit the Alexander brothers as they were escorted from a Manhattan federal courtroom on Tuesday evening.

Oren and Tal, once among the country’s leading luxury real estate brokers, and their brother Alon appeared “somber” as they were taken to the holding area at the Southern District of New York following their sex-trafficking convictions, a family source said.

During sentencing, the judge warned that their parents might never see them as free men again and that their children would eventually have to face the painful truth about their fathers.

Once back in their cells, the brothers immediately called their parents. They had urged them not to attend this week’s sentencing to spare them further “heartache,” according to Juda Engelmayer, the family’s communications strategist.

The 39-year-old twins, Alon and Oren, also called their wives, whom they had likewise asked to stay away from court.

Since their incarceration in December 2024, the brothers have received regular visits from relatives traveling between their hometown of Miami and New York City, where the siblings once moved in affluent circles and hosted lavish parties.

“Between the parents, their wives and their children, there is at least one visitor every week, if not more,” Engelmayer said.

The three men have spent nearly two years at New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Once accustomed to private jets and multimillion-dollar mansions, the brothers are now awaiting decisions on which federal prison will house them after each received a 30-year sentence.

“The families are coping the best they can,” Engelmayer said. “They’re hoping the brothers are placed in an institution closer to Miami—whether in Tallahassee or somewhere else in Florida—so they can see them more often.”

Prison officials are also considering whether the brothers should be sent to separate facilities.

Judge Valerie Caproni recommended separating them, saying the brothers had been “bad influences on one another.”

Their family, however, believes keeping them together would provide greater protection.

“I think the Bureau of Prisons is thinking more proactively, and the brothers are safer together as a unit rather than being separated,” Engelmayer said.

The debate over whether the brothers should remain together has gained urgency after an alleged attempted attack inside the jail.

Engelmayer told the Daily Mail that the brothers were working on computers in the library when another inmate suddenly charged into the area.

The inmate had allegedly harassed them before, but an officer tackled him and used pepper spray before he could reach the brothers. Neither man was injured.

The incident nevertheless left them shaken. ‘They were jarred, but they’ve learned to manage and to maintain situational awareness,’ Engelmayer said.

A prison source with regular contact with the brothers told the Daily Mail he believes they were targeted for extortion. 

There are concerns that separating the brothers could leave them isolated and at risk of further confrontations.

Engelmayer described the brothers as a tight unit who looked out for one another, despite having very different personalities.

The lawyer said Alon is the most sensitive of the three, while Tal is more mission-oriented and Oren has a natural inclination towards leadership. 

However prosecutors portrayed a darker picture of them as a group, describing them as a trio whose social lives, wealth and access to women intertwined and who enabled and encouraged one another’s sexual violence.

Some of their accusers described being raped by multiple brothers at once.

At the height of their power, Tal and Oren were among the country’s most successful luxury real estate moguls. 

Among their biggest successes was their involvement in the sale of a $240million penthouse on Central Park South, which was then the most expensive residential property ever sold in the US. Alon, meanwhile, was an executive in the family business.

The brothers were formidable networkers who cultivated relationships with the super-rich from New York to Miami and were pictured with celebrities like Ivanka Trump.

They have also begun building relationships inside prison. 

‘They’ve found useful alliances,’ said Engelmayer.

A prison selfie surfaced in July 2026 showing convicted sex trafficker Oren Alexander posing with jailed fraudster David Motovich.

The brothers also know Luigi Mangione, who is awaiting trial over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, said Engelmayer.

Born to Israeli-American parents and raised in a traditional Jewish household, the brothers have also been reconnecting with their faith behind bars. On the night of sentencing, they prayed.

‘They prayed for their family’s well-being, prayed to be able to help to raise their kids [from afar] and see the kids’ milestones grow,’ said Engelmayer.

‘And they prayed for their own safety.’

‘They’re looking toward towards religion and God a lot more and considering their place in the universe a lot more lately than they had been before,’ he added.

The next morning, the brothers were visited by Rabbi Chaim Pollock, who was in the courtroom during sentencing and who visits them regularly in prison.

The trio now tries to observe Shabbat every Saturday, reading prayers from a prayer book and studying the weekly Torah portion inside the detention center.

Oren, who wore a yarmulke at sentencing, compared himself and his siblings to the biblical story of Abraham and Sarah in his statement during sentencing, which tells of a couple being given a new beginning later in life.

‘They are not saying that they are doing that,’ Engelmayer said, ‘but they are saying God even gave these people a chance late in life to start over.

‘They keep kosher. They do the best they can. You know, where you know to the extent that the prison accommodates them, the vending machines have kosher food,’ Engelmayer said.

‘I don’t know how much kosher accommodations the kitchen has, but they work around that if it’s fish vegetables cheese, but they won’t eat meat.’

The brothers spend most of their time studying law books and preparing to appeal their convictions, Engelmayer said.

‘They have always been hard workers in business and in industry and I think they have replaced business and industry with their legal issues.

‘They have been focused on reading through law books, statute books and other lawsuits and are highly focused. That is how they are keeping their minds clear.’

The brothers have continued to maintain their innocence, denying that they drugged, raped or sexually assaulted anyone, despite being convicted on multiple federal sex offences.

In their statements at sentencing, they expressed regret for their past behavior towards women, including philandering and recreational drug use, but stopped short of admitting to the crimes for which they were convicted.

On top of their prison sentences, there will also be a significant financial reckoning.

The brothers have already been ordered to pay fines of $300,000 each, with Tal facing an additional $50,000 penalty and Oren another $50,000. The amount they must pay in restitution to victims is still to be determined.

The brothers also face more than two dozen civil lawsuits brought by women who accuse them of rape and sexual assault, which the brothers continue to deny. 

Australia have conceded they need to show greater resilience with the bat after David Warner condemned their collapse in Cape Town as “utterly disgraceful” and “deplorable”.

Warner, who was part of the Australian team less than three years ago, delivered the sharpest criticism of his former teammates on Saturday as they slumped to a 176-run defeat.

The former Test opener has been increasingly outspoken about Australia’s selections in recent months, but his response to the latest batting failure was especially scathing. Australia collapsed to 8-62 before eventually losing the match by 176 runs.

“I’m just upset, it’s terrible, it’s un-Australian. There’s no fight whatsoever, it’s disgraceful,” Warner said on Fox Cricket.

“Chasing 288, you’re winning a Test match, you could win a series, it’s on the line, and this is the way that they’re playing.”

“I think it’s deplorable but the batters have let the bowlers down the whole series.”

“Matt Renshaw showed fight in that first Test, but I think the batters have been utterly disgraceful.”

Australia’s batting problems are not confined to this tour. They have been dismissed for 4-95 or worse in 14 of their last 25 Test innings.

Asked whether Warner’s assessment was fair, Australia captain Pat Cummins replied: “I don’t even know what to make of that”.

Warner was not the only former Australian player to condemn the collapse.

Mark Waugh called the performance “terrible” during the same Fox panel, while former Australia batter Simon Katich offered a similarly damning assessment on SEN radio.

“This has been brewing for a while,” Katich said.

“And the rhetoric is the batting group has had to deal with bad wickets. Well the wickets in this series have (had) nothing bad about them.”

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Katich cited Australia’s two-day defeat at the MCG last year, their first-day batting collapse in the shock loss to Bangladesh in Darwin in August and last week’s total of 99 in Gqeberha.

“If you constantly keep making excuses for players, they will latch onto them,” he said.

“This is exactly what Matty Hayden was talking (about) prior to the series, about mediocrity.”

“If you’re going to allow that mediocrity to grow, this is the sort of performance you get.”

Katich has been a long-time critic of the suggestion players should go after the bowling on tough wickets, with the theory they will be dismissed eventually.

Much of Australia’s best batting in South Africa has been in patient innings on flatter pitches, as evidenced by Renshaw’s Durban century and day two in Cape Town.

But they were seemingly drawn into the chaos on the fifth morning of the deciding Test, with Travis Head out driving outside off at 2-22 and Alex Carey reverse-sweeping at 4-42.

‘I don’t think we’ve been able to manage those different tempos well enough. It’s something we talk about,’ Cummins said.

‘This series, a lot of the runs that were scored were on the back of those old Test cricket kind of values that you face a lot of balls, it gets a little bit easier.

‘It’s not always the case. So, I don’t think there’s one set rule.

‘But, certainly here, even in Darwin, there’s moments where you will get rewarded. The game will come to you if you dig in.

‘That new ball was going to be a key period … But if you can just get through that period it does get a little bit easier against the quicks.’

Former press secretary Katie Zacharia said she was left “perplexed” after Sean Hannity challenged her credentials during what she described as a hostile interview.

Zacharia, 42, appeared on Hannity’s Fox News program on October 15, days after a disastrous first press briefing. She stumbled over her words, took only three questions and ended the session after 15 minutes, despite briefings typically lasting about an hour.

She had apparently expected a more cordial exchange after Hannity publicly defended the embattled press secretary on his program.

“Zacharia’s being mocked,” he said two days before her appearance. “She’s been attacked over her appearance, her hair, the way she spoke. They questioned her intelligence, her credentials. They even asked about her bar exam.”

Yet when Zacharia joined him on air, Hannity pressed her on those same credentials, including her description of herself as a lawyer despite never passing the bar exam.

Newsmax host Rob Finnerty later suggested that someone at the White House may have authorized Hannity to question Zacharia so aggressively. Fox News and Hannity have both denied the claim.

“Katie, I was shocked by the Hannity treatment, if I’m being honest,” Finnerty told Zacharia during her first interview since leaving the White House.

“I don’t think he does that if he doesn’t get the green light from somebody, perhaps at the White House,” he added. “I don’t know, what do you make of this narrative that Fox did this on purpose?”

Interview branded unexpectedly ‘hostile’ 

Zacharia also revealed that Hannity’s team had offered her a position as a California correspondent earlier in the year.

“I’m just as perplexed about what happened, specifically with Sean Hannity,” she replied.

Finnerty asked whether Hannity’s team had raised questions about her credentials when it offered her the job.

“I doubt that he had any interest in your educational background at that point when you had that call,” he said. “Is that accurate? Is that fair?”

“We never had a conversation about my educational background,” Zacharia confirmed.

Finnerty then asked whether she would appear on Hannity’s show again.

“Look, I never bow away from a fight or back away from a fight,” she responded.

“I’ve been on CNN. I’ve debated some of the most hostile, not anchors, but guests. And I’ve been able to do it with grace, with dignity and walk away and even maintain decorum,” Zacharia said. She added that she would have been better prepared if she had arranged an interview with someone such as CNN’s Jake Tapper.

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“But because I had had a very friendly rapport with Sean, and he had even made very backing statements about me on Tuesday, October 13th, really coming to my defense, I was not prepared for the hostility that I received.”

During the Hannity interview, Zacharia attempted to explain why she had referred to herself as a “lawyer” while the Fox News host questioned her professional credentials.

She then admitted that she failed the bar exam on her first try, and confirmed she never took the exam a second time. 

Zacharia explains failed bar exam

‘For background, I graduated Pepperdine, got married in the same week, we had all intent to move out to China,’ Zacharia explained to Hannity, giving the backstory on why she failed.

‘I had already pre-registered for the bar exam, basically during the summer I had learned I was moving to China so the results would be inconsequential.’

Hannity also challenged Zacharia’s short briefing, asking: ‘Why only three questions in 14 minutes?’ before warning her that the White House briefing room would ‘never be a friendly room to you.’

She then tried to explain that it had been a whirlwind week for her, having only interviewed for the job one week before she was asked to give her first briefing.

‘I had been on the job for one day and instead of taking questions, probably should’ve stepped aside,’ she told Hannity, while adding she feels ‘I did my very best to deliver for the American people.’

She said the right thing to do might have been to just give ‘a brief intro’ to the press corps and noted she had only been on the job ‘for eight hours.’ 

But just one day after giving the interview, Zacharia was brutally ousted from her position at the White House, making her the shortest-serving press secretary in White House history. 

‘The best is yet to come’ 

Still, Zacharia said she remains ‘ruthlessly loyal’ to President Donald Trump.

‘It was an honor to work for President Trump, and no one has been more relentlessly attacked by the media than him,’ she previously told Newsweek.

Zacharia then vowed that ‘the best is yet to come,’ and said her week in the Trump administration included working ‘around the clock’ ahead of the midterm elections. 

‘As Rudyard Kipling wrote, “If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch.” After a week with him on the midterm blitz, I saw that in action,’ Zacharia said. 

‘Working around the clock with world leaders – bringing hostages home and brokering peace – while speaking to crowds of Americans to win the midterms and deliver for the people.

‘No one has carried the water for the Republican Party and America First like he has for over a decade, all without losing the common touch.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to Fox News for comment. 

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The chief executive of a controversial surveillance-camera company has drawn his wife into an escalating privacy controversy after leaked audio revealed him saying she had advised him to “never apologize.”

Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock Safety, made the comments at a private meeting of police chiefs in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, according to audio obtained by 404 Media.

Flock has faced mounting criticism over its nationwide network of license plate-reading cameras. During the gathering, Langley dismissed much of the opposition, claiming protests against the company were not authentic and suggesting Russian bots were responsible for a significant share of the online backlash.

“I give my wife a lot of credit. She was, like, you should never apologize,” Langley said, according to the outlet.

“Sure, people make mistakes. I’ve made a lot of mistakes in the last nine years. I made a lot of mistakes this summer. But we do good work.”

Langley apologized in July to activists who had protested Flock after he previously described their group as a “terroristic organization,” Forbes reported.

He also said his wife had supported his theory that Russian bots were fueling the online criticism directed at Flock.

“It went down 50 percent last week when Ukraine bombed a Russian data center with a drone. Literally 50 percent overnight,” Langley said.

“And so look, I’m the last person, my wife as well, she’s like ‘This is crazy, these people are getting paid to say these things.’”

Langley offered no evidence for the claims about alleged Russian bot activity.

The CEO acknowledged that what he described as inauthentic online activity had contributed to genuine protests from activists.

“Inorganic activity has led to organic activity, but when I look at protests across the country, it is the same people with the same signs and the same message,” Langley said.

“That’s not normal. That’s not organic at all.”

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Langley also told attendees that he would prefer to avoid speaking with the media altogether.

“I’d like to never do media again if that’s possible,” he said.

“The media gets to say whatever they want to say about you,” Langley added at another point.

The comments come as privacy advocates warn that Flock’s surveillance network could create a searchable record of people’s day-to-day driving patterns and movements.

Flock has acknowledged that it has deployed around 100,000 cameras across America, according to the BBC. 

The roadside devices photograph passing vehicles and record their license plates, locations and precise time of travel, allowing separate sightings to be pieced together into a detailed journey.

While police say the technology helps locate stolen vehicles and criminal suspects, civil liberties groups argue that innocent motorists can also be swept into the system and their movements searched without officers first obtaining a warrant.

Concerns have intensified amid allegations that officers used the system to monitor former partners and cases in which incorrect alerts allegedly led to innocent motorists being detained.

The company says information is deleted after 30 days by default, although retention periods can vary under local contracts and state laws. Flock also maintains that its customers control access to their information and that searches are logged and can be audited.

However, a growing number of American communities are imposing restrictions on the technology or abandoning the company altogether.

The American Civil Liberties Union said in June that more than 55 communities had ended Flock contracts during the previous year, citing fears that the technology could enable warrantless surveillance, federal access to locally collected records and searches without sufficient municipal oversight.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Flock Safety for comment.

Police have identified one of three suspects wanted over a “terrifying” home invasion at the residence of a Canadian CEO, saying the man was accidentally shot by one of his accomplices.

Daijohn Richards, 23, of Toronto, is wanted in connection with Thursday’s violent break-in at the $2.1 million home of David Morton in the affluent Bridle Path neighborhood, police said.

Morton, the CEO of MAC Group, was at home with his wife and their two daughters when three masked men reportedly forced their way inside shortly after 3.30am. The suspects were armed with handguns and a hammer.

Morton and his two daughters were shot during the ordeal, while his wife, Doriana Zohil-Morton, was “smashed in the head” with the hammer, according to the Toronto Sun.

All four family members survived, although two suffered what were described as “life-altering injuries.”

On Saturday, the Toronto Police Service identified Richards as one of the three suspects sought in the attack. All three remain at large.

“We know who you are, and we’re actively looking for you. Your world just got smaller,” Inspector Kristy Smith said at a press conference.

Investigators believe Richards was shot in the right shoulder by one of the other suspects as the group terrorized the family and demanded valuables, Smith said.

Richards reportedly went to St Joseph’s Health Centre for treatment soon afterward. Hospital staff notified police in accordance with Ontario’s mandatory reporting rules for gunshot wounds.

He was discharged “late Thursday morning,” before police recognized his possible connection to the home invasion later that evening, authorities told CP24 News.

“We conducted a number of interactions with this male prior to him being released from the hospital,” Smith said.

Asked why officers had not arrested Richards while he was receiving treatment, Smith said police had not yet established sufficient grounds connecting him to the crime.

“We don’t just go off of suspicion,” Smith said. She explained that investigators later established the link through forensic work with the Centre for Forensic Science and door-to-door inquiries in the neighborhood.

Addressing Richards directly, she said: “I strongly urge you to get a lawyer, contact a lawyer, and turn yourself in.”

Police confirmed that a Canada-wide warrant had been issued for Richards and urged anyone who knows where he is to contact investigators immediately.

“Investigators believe Daijohn Richards was accidentally shot by one of the other suspects during the struggle inside the victims’ home,” authorities said. “He may show apparent signs of a shoulder injury.”

Police also released a photo of Richards, who is wanted on a slew of charges, including four counts of discharging a firearm with intent to wound, four counts of robbery with a firearm and three counts of aggravated assault.

He is also charged with break and enter into a dwelling-house, possessing a prohibited device and disguise with intent.

The manhunt also continues for the two remaining unidentified suspects, with Smith warning the public not to approach them if they are spotted. 

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The latest developments come just two days after three suspects stormed a multimillion-dollar home on Hyde Park Circle, near Bayview and Lawrence Avenues, at around 3.45am.

They forced their way inside through a rear door, with two carrying guns and the third armed with a hammer, before confronting Morton, 75, his 64-year-old wife and their two adult daughters, Maggie and Cristina Zohil-Morton, both in their 20s.

‘There was a violent interaction. There was a demand made for valuables from within the home – whether or not they escaped with anything is uncertain,’ Smith said, according to The Toronto Sun. 

‘An affluent area where people would have things that are sought after would be the motivation for this,’ she added.

Sources told CP24 that the masked intruders made their way to the second floor and entered the victims’ bedrooms, where they fired multiple shots and attacked the 64-year-old woman with a hammer. 

Morton and one of his daughters were shot in the leg, while his other daughter was struck by a bullet beneath the arm, The Toronto Sun reported. The suspects then fled the scene in a dark-colored SUV. 

Smith also revealed Saturday that, ‘through the grace of God,’ some of the victims had since been released from hospital, although it remains unclear which family members have been discharged.

She described the attack as involving ‘an appalling level of violence, all for the purpose of acquiring property,’ adding: ‘This was a family asleep in their own home,’ CP24 reported. 

Morton told the Daily Mail in an emailed statement Friday afternoon that his family went through a ‘terrifying and life-threatening experience’ while they should have been in the ‘safety and security of [their] own home.’ 

‘It is difficult to put into words the trauma of experiencing something so horrific in the one place where everyone should feel safest: their own home,’ he added.  

‘No family should ever have to experience this. People should be able to sleep peacefully in their homes without fear of armed individuals breaking in and threatening their lives.’ 

The CEO of the Toronto-based real estate services company said his family was ‘deeply concerned about the increasing violence associated with home invasions’ and the safety of families across the city. 

Thursday’s attack marked the 119th home invasion reported to Toronto police so far this year, a 32.2 per cent increase over the same period in 2025. 

Detectives have yet to establish whether the family was specifically targeted or what motivated the suspects, according to the National Post. Security camera footage from inside the home has since been handed over to police. 

Smith said residents should expect to see an increased police presence in the area as the investigation continues. 

‘This is a very active and ongoing investigation,’ said Smith, adding: ‘I can assure you that we are doing our best to provide information on the three suspects.’

Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact the Hold Up Squad on 416-808-7350 or 33 Division on 416-808-3300. 

The MAC Group describes itself as a family-owned business operating across real estate, executive corporate housing, global mobility and the luxury villa market in the Caribbean.

Morton heads the company as CEO, with his wife serving as president and daughter Maggie also working there. Their other daughter, Cristina, is the founder of immigration law firm Zohil-Morton Law.