- Roy ‘Trey’ Farmer, 53, was arrested Friday at his home across from Princeton University in New Jersey.
- The LGBTQ activist with degrees from Harvard, Yale and Princeton is president of Princeton’s Queer Alumni Association.
- But he faces up to five years in prison if convicted of downloading child pornography.
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An LGBTQ activist with top degrees from Harvard, Yale and Princeton faces up to five years in prison on charges of downloading child pornography.
Roy ‘Trey’ Farmer, 53, was arrested at his home outside the gates of Princeton in New Jersey on Friday following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
The former ‘piano prodigy’ sits on the board of the New York Philharmonic and is president of Queer Princeton Alumni, but his details have since been removed from their website.
A successful banker and businessman, he was president of the Harvard Glee Club and has served on the boards of orchestras and opera companies around the world.
He is also president of Florida’s StayInMay Festival, which has hosted over 300 events in Naples over the past ten years.
Roy ‘Trey’ Farmer, 53, has first-class degrees from three Ivy League universities, including Harvard and Yale, and is president of Queer Princeton Alumni.
The president of the Princeton University Glee Club Foundation cut the cake at its annual alumni sing-along in New York City in February of this year.
But he was arrested Friday and charged with downloading child pornography.
NCMEC alerted Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit detectives in January that child sexual abuse material had been downloaded in Mercer County, where Princeton is located.
On Friday, the Mercer County Tactical Response Team, with assistance from the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office and Trenton Homeland Security Investigations searched Farmer’s Princeton apartment and seized “multiple items of evidentiary value,” he said. the prosecutor’s office.
Farmer was arrested without a fight and held in the Mercer County Jail pending a detention hearing Wednesday.
A philosophy graduate of Princeton’s Class of 1993, he earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Yale University and a master’s degree in education from Harvard.
He landed a job in private equity before establishing a boutique investment bank during 15 years spent living in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
But he has remained a pillar of the Princeton establishment with places on the boards of many of its societies.
“Good things happen when you bring Princetonians together,” he told an interviewer two years ago.
‘There are wonderfully generous interactions from like-minded people who want to give their time to volunteering, and they are all very passionate about it.
‘This is not traditional networking. It’s about connecting interesting people doing interesting things in all areas of our society.’
He previously served on the boards of Classical Chamber Concerts, the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Naples Music Club and the Naples Opera.
The banker and festival organizer spoke to guests at Queer Princeton Alumni Day in February.
He was arrested at his apartment outside the university after police received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
And he was instrumental in keeping Princeton’s alumni communities together with a podcast series from his home next to campus.
“For me, Princeton has always been about people,” he said.
‘Alumni and students constantly challenge me and inspire me in new ways.
“All the things I’ve done in my life and in my career stem from the things I was exposed to at Princeton.”