by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 22 – Amid the news of the arrest of the Alexander brothers in Miami on SDNY sex trafficking charges, in the SDNY Magistrate Court on the morning of December 11 the superseding indictment was "wheeled out" to District Judge Valerie E. Caproni. Inner City Press was there, and X-ed it out.
On December 31 Tal Alexander's lawyer wrote to Judge Caproni, on Patreon here
On August 21 Oren Alexander retained two of the defense lawyers in Sean Combs' recent trial, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, amid pre-trial skirmishes.
On November 7 Inner City Press filed opposition to the Alexander brothers' extensive redactions. Judge Caproni cited and docketed the motion on November 10, denying the Alexanders' request and ordering less redactions by November 14, order and Inner City Press letter on PACER here
and on DocumentCloud here
Inner City Press live tweeted it, albeit not on innercitypress on X (here's why, including Q&A with xAI's Grok). MatthewLeeICP link. The brothers lost most evidentiary fights.
On December 5, Inner City Press back on its main account live tweeted the arguments by the defense against an expert on (young) victims, and the trial was moved back to jury selection starting January 20 or 21, opening statements January 26.
Late on December 11 Marc Agnifilo docketed his Brady letter - now on Patreon here.
On December 18 the US Attorney's Office wrote in that on defendants' 412 Motion, they propose to respond on December 22 with defense reply "December 26 in light of the Christmas holiday."
On December 22 Judge Caproni ordered "on December 19, 2025, Defendants filed a letter notifying the Court that they object to Victim 7 testifying under a full pseudonym, with exhibits appended thereto, see Dkts. 266, 266-1 (under seal), 266-2 (under seal), 266-3 (under seal), 266-4 (under seal), 266-5 (under seal); IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, by Wednesday, December 31, 2025, the Government must submit a response to Defendants' opposition if it still believes that allowing Victim 7 to testify under a full pseudonym is warranted, or otherwise notify the Court if it withdraws the request that Victim 7 be allowed to testify under a full pseudonym. SO ORDERED."
More / extra on X for Subscribers here and on Substack here
This case is USA v. Alexander, et al., 1:24-cr-676 (Caproni)
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