This photo provided by Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department shows from left, Alon Alexander and Oren Alexander, both have been charged with sex trafficking, according to a federal indictment unsealed in New York on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department via AP.

NEW YORK (AP) — A two-decade pattern of alleged sex trafficking by two luxury real estate brokers and their brother wasn’t “just men behaving badly,” a federal judge said as she left their indictment largely intact and rejected defense efforts to minimize the gravity of crimes involving dozens of women.

In an Oct. 17 opinion unsealed Wednesday, Judge Valerie E. Caproni expressed skepticism about some of the arguments defense lawyers offered as they tried to get the charges

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