A federal jury in the Southern District of New York convicted Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander of sex trafficking on March 1 after a five-week trial in which eleven women testified. Prosecutors had recommended 185 years for Tal and Alon and 195 for Oren, while the defense asked for 15. On October 27, Judge Valerie Caproni sentenced each brother to 30 years. Reporting since the verdict has added that victim four withdrew after an investigator asked her neighbors about her children, and her charges were dropped; the brothers had sued The Real Deal over its reporting before their arrest, and a police report from their high school years named Oren and Alon among a group of boys interviewed.