A federal judge ordered that a prominent real estate broker be held without bond Friday on sexual assault and trafficking charges, saying he is a flight risk as she rejected his family's pledge of $115 million in real estate holdings to secure his release.

Another brother, who co-founded the real estate firm, is also charged in what federal officials call a longtime sex trafficking scheme. Oren and Alon Alexander, both 37, were ordered held without bond by Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer until a hearing Friday ...

Tal and Oren Alexander, once top real estate agents, and their brother Alon, are accused of using travel, luxury accommodations and other lures to draw dozens of women to isolated locations and then gang rape them in a sex trafficking operation lasting from 2010 to 2021.