A convicted fraudster is going through a further federal cost after he allegedly allowed Oren Alexander and different inmates at a Brooklyn jail to make use of his unlawful cellphone.
Prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed the criticism in opposition to former lumberyard proprietor David Motovich, who was sentenced to fifteen years in jail for working a check-cashing scheme. Motovich, who was convicted in 2024, spent $55 million in illegally obtained funds on luxurious vehicles, jewellery and renovations on an Higher East Facet penthouse.
Motovich is accused of possessing a contraband telephone, which different detainees additionally used, in some instances to make exterior calls, in line with the criticism.
A type of prisoners was Oren, a supply acquainted with the case instructed the New York Occasions. The disgraced prime dealer was convicted in March alongside his brothers, Tal and Alon Alexander, on a number of prices associated to intercourse trafficking.
The criticism features a photograph Motovich seems to have taken of himself with one other inmate, whose face is blurred. The Occasions, which first reported information of the cost, recognized the opposite man as Oren.
Oren and his brothers have been within the Metropolitan Detention Middle since January 2025, following their December 2024 arrests in Miami. At one level throughout their tenure on the facility, officers discovered that every one three Alexanders have been making calls on unlawful cell telephones, nevertheless, not one of the brothers have been charged with possessing contraband.
Henry Mazurek, a lawyer representing Motovich, declined to remark to the Occasions. A spokesperson for the Alexanders, Juda Engelmayer, additionally declined to remark.
Earlier this 12 months, a jury discovered all three brothers responsible of 10 prices, together with a number of counts of intercourse trafficking and conspiracy to commit intercourse trafficking. Oren was additionally convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor associated to a video of him raping an intoxicated 17-year-old woman.
The Alexanders are nonetheless awaiting their sentencing, which is scheduled for October. Their attorneys have beforehand mentioned that they planned to appeal their conviction.
— Sheridan Wall
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