UK Brings New Trafficking Charges Against Tate Brothers
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British prosecutors brought 38 additional charges against Andrew and Tristan Tate after identifying four more alleged victims. The brothers were arrested in Miami, and the U.K. has requested their extradition.
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service has brought 38 additional charges against social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, including rape and trafficking for sexual exploitation, and requested their extradition from the United States.
The brothers were arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service on Saturday, July 18, according to a CPS statement published the following day. British prosecutors said the new charges concern four additional alleged victims and bring the total number of alleged victims in the U.K. case to seven.
Andrew Tate, 39, faces seven additional rape counts, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, and three counts of assault causing actual bodily harm. He also faces 19 additional charges involving indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
Tristan Tate, 38, faces two rape counts, one count of sexual assault, and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The alleged offenses took place between July 2010 and August 2017, prosecutors said. The new charges bring the total number faced by the brothers in Britain to 59, including 21 previously authorized charges involving three alleged victims.
Tate brothers are being threatened, treated like Jeffrey Epstein in jail, their lawyer says
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Tate brothers are being threatened, treated like Jeffrey Epstein in jail, their lawyer says right now, that doesn’t play well for anyone
MIAMI –– The Tate brothers are being harassed by other inmates and treated like Jeffrey Epstein while they await extradition in a Miami lockup, their lawyer has claimed.
Tate brothers are being threatened, treated like Jeffrey Epstein in jail, their lawyer says
Story by Alex Diaz
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New York Post
Tate brothers are being threatened, treated like Jeffrey Epstein in jail, their lawyer says
right now, that doesn’t play well for anyone
MIAMI –– The Tate brothers are being harassed by other inmates and treated like Jeffrey Epstein while they await extradition in a Miami lockup, their lawyer has claimed.
Controversial “manosphere” influencers Andrew Tate, 39, and his brother Tristan, 38, were arrested by US Marshals at a bare-knuckle boxing event in Miami on July 18 and are being held in secure housing in federal detention.
The brothers are fighting extradition to the UK, where they face a combined total of 59 criminal charges there, including rape, sex trafficking and offenses related to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
Andrew Tate under arrest in Miami over charges including rape and sex trafficking on July 18, 2026. BACKGRID
The charges have “put a target on their back for them to get stabbed, jumped, murdered,” their lawyer Joe McBride told reporters after a scheduling hearing in court Monday.
“Every time somebody walks by their cell they get called a word that starts with a ‘P’ that’s more appropriate to (Jeffrey) Epstein and not appropriate to them,” McBride said, speaking outside the C. Clyde Atkins U. Courthouse
“There’s a pecking order in jail, it’s very real, and when you come in with those allegations, there’s no excuses.”
McBride added that the child sex claims meant that the brothers are seen as “fair game” and the public is “greenlighting for them to get murdered in jail.”
“These allegations against them are the worst for a multitude of reasons, it’s one of the reasons why they’re in solitary,” he said. “We hope to get them out.”
Tristan Tate (pictured) and Andrew are facing 59 total criminal charges in the UK. BACKGRID
Federal Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis set a date Monday for a detention hearing on whether the brothers can be released on bail while awaiting extradition to be held on Aug. 13.
It means the Tates will remain in jail for two more weeks at the very least as they fight against being sent to the UK in a process which could last months.
McBride told The Post Monday he was hopeful the brothers will be released on bail but admitted “it’s a tall climb” because the presumption is against bail unless defendants can prove special circumstances, which he believes they can.
The Tate brothers’ lawyer Joseph McBride speaking to the media outside of C. Clyde Atkins US Courthouse in Miami on July 27, 2026. REUTERS
The Tates –– who are dual US and UK citizens –– did not attend Monday’s hearing, but they did make a brief appearance in court two days after their arrest.
Andrew Tate’s X account –– which McBride told The Post is being updated by his team as he does not have access to a phone –– has repeatedly stated that he is being held in the jail’s special housing unit and has “no commissary, no phone calls, no yard time”.
It has also claimed that his neighbor is “a cannibal who screams throughout the night.”
A courtroom sketch of the Tate brothers in Miami federal court on July 20, 2026. AP
Judge Louis gave the brothers’ legal team until Aug. 5 to file a motion for the brothers to be released on bail and prosecutors until Aug. 10 to respond before the hearing.
Prosecutors in Britain have said the latest charges were brought forward after British police investigated claims made by an additional four victims.
The new claims are the latest in a long-running international legal battle involving the Tates which has spanned the US, Britain and Romania.
The brothers are being criminally prosecuted in Romania over allegations which include having sex with a minor, trafficking minors, running an organized crime operation and money laundering.
The pair vehemently deny all the allegations against them, with Andrew’s X account claiming that he is being held as a “political prisoner.”
Joseph Daniel McBride (born June 30, 1978) is an American criminal defense and civil litigator, media personality, and international consultant. He founded The McBride Law Firm in 2019 and is widely known for his representation of Andrew Tate and those charged during the January 6 United States Capitol attack, including Richard Barnett.[1][2]
Raised in Brooklyn, McBride graduated from law school in 2014 and spent several years in Manhattan representing defendants as a legal aid attorney. Following the January 6 Capitol attack, he represented a number of those involved in the event, and appeared on behalf of U.S. House Select Committee witnesses.
He has worked as an attorney and counselor at his New York City law firm since 2019.
According to McBride, he was inspired to become a lawyer after his adopted brother, Anthony, was pressured into pleading guilty or facing 10 years imprisonment for a crime he claims his brother did not commit.[4]
Career
McBride founded The McBride Law Firm, PLLC, and has served as an attorney and counselor at the firm since 2019. He also received the Avvo Client’s Choice Award in 2019. In addition, he is a partner at Power Dynamic Strategies (PDS), a US-based consulting firm with a significant presence in the United Arab Emirates.[4]
January 6 clients: DOJ prosecutions
Richard Barnett
McBride became an advocate for those charged during the January 6 Capitol attack. He also operates the January 6th Legal Fund for the legal needs of his clients involved in the events of January 6.[5] McBride took Richard “Bigo” Barnett as his client, an Arkansas window installer who put his feet on a desk in the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on January 6, 2021. In April 2021, a judge released Barnett from pretrial detention,[6] deeming him not dangerous enough to remain in jail; this followed a federal appeals court ruling in March that made it harder for the Department of Justice to keep those not accused of assault or planning an attack to stay imprisoned.[7][8]
In March 2021, after an incident at a virtual hearing with U.S. District Court JudgeChristopher R. Cooper in which Barnett became frustrated because of his pretrial detention, McBride defended his client in a statement to NBC News: “Mr. Barnett’s frustration stems from the fact that he is incarcerated pre-trial, despite lacking any criminal history…Normally, facts like these are more than enough for an individual to fight their case from the outside.”[9]
Barnett was eventually found guilty of all charges and was sentenced to serve 54 months in prison.[10]
Ryan Nichols
McBride also represented January 6 defendant Ryan Nichols, who was released from pretrial detention by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan in November 2022 after 20 months of imprisonment.[11] McBride had spent months filing motions for Nichols’ release from pretrial detention, and complained that officials at a correctional facility in Washington, D.C. had stolen a thumb drive containing attorney-client privileged information, a claim contested by Judge Hogan. However, Hogan concluded that Nichols had issues with access to discovery, and that the facility holding him in Rappahannock, Virginia was not suited for the large amount of digital video evidence he had to review for his trial, and agreed to release him.[12]
Nichols was eventually found guilty of all charges and sentenced to serve 63 months in prison.[13]
Christopher Quaglin
In March 2023, U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden claimed that McBride had misled the court during the trial of January 6 defendant Christopher Quaglin about the qualifications of another lawyer to whom he was transferring the case.[14][15] However, McFadden declined to discipline McBride, and only admonished him with a statement.[16][17] In April 2022, Quaglin had filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and jail superintendent Ted Hull treated him with “malicious indifference.”[18][19][20] As reported in Law & Crime that month, McBride noted that since Quaglin’s arrest a year prior he had been transferred to half a dozen different facilities, and said: “The intensity and duration of his mistreatment grows worse with each transfer.”
Quaglin was eventually found guilty and sentenced to 144 months in prison.[21]
January 6 clients: Select Committee
McBride also appeared on behalf of January 6 select committee witnesses Alexander Bruesewitz and Ali Alexander, as reported by Politico in January 2023.[22]
Keith Raniere
McBride worked as a defense attorney on the legal team of NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere.[23][24][25] In 2021, before Raniere’s appeal to the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, McBride expressed concern with how the FBI was handling the case. In a February 18, 2021 appearance on the Law & Crime Network, he said: “We have a lot of questions about the FBI’s work in this case. People here were hurt on some level but the question…is about proving each element of each crime beyond a reasonable doubt. We don’t think that the government did that in this case.”[26][27]
McBride also spoke to Channel 13 news in Tucson, Arizona about the case in February 2021, stating: “There is a system of laws and procedures set in place and if somebody’s going to lose their trial, it’s got to be a fair trial. They’ve got to lose on the facts, by the rules.”[28]
Views
McBride was described by the Washington Examiner as a supporter of Donald Trump.[29] He has accused the FBI of discriminating against Catholics and compared defendants accused of crimes during the January 6 attack to Jesus.[30] From January 3 to 5, 2023, McBride undertook a three-day fast on behalf of the January 6 detainees.[31] excommunicated Catholic ex-Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò sent McBride a letter voicing support for the fast and stating: “I can only encourage and bless this commendable gesture of penance.”[32]
In May 2022, he spoke against prolonged solitary confinement on his Twitter account, stating that it “violates a prisoner’s human rights every time it is used,” and thanked U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert for opposing the punishment of January 6 detainees during pretrial confinement.[34]
Media
McBride has appeared on Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News, among other outlets.[4] He was featured on Part 3 of Tucker Carlson’s Patriot Purge, a three-part series that concluded in November 2021. On March 9, 2023, McBride appeared with Donald Trump Jr. on an episode of Trump’s online video series Triggered. While appearing on Tucker Carlson’s program, McBride said that a man whose face was obscured by red paint at the January 6 attack was “clearly a law enforcement officer”; a HuffPost reporter later produced evidence showing the man to be fan of the St. Louis Cardinals.[35]
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