Exclusive | Bigwig SF real estate investor charged in sickening underage online chatroom sting
A powerful California real estate investor weaponized an online sex ring in the vile pursuit of his underage victims, prosecutors claimed.San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins slapped a slew of charges on investment property honcho Reuben Teague, 50, for his alleged participation in a dramatic online child sex ring sting conducted by the San Francisco Sheriff.The San Francisco millionaire is a former vice president at Prudential Financial, where he oversaw a large portfolio of responsible real estate and social impact investments before becoming the executive director for PGIM, Prudential’s global asset management business.San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said Teague was one of five men arrested in the sting.Miyamoto said terrifying online child sex perverts come from all walks of life.
“That is an important reminder that there is no single profile of someone who commits these crimes,” said Miyamoto.“One of the biggest lessons from the operations like this is you never truly know who is behind a computer screen. (Teague holds an economics degree from Princeton University and a law degree from the NYU School of Law.)But investigators say the top real estate exec is actually an online child sex predator who used the web to lure his underage victims for sick meetings with the intention of committing even more vile crimes.
Undercover officers snared accused sexual deviant Teague in an Internet Crimes Against Children Undercover Chat Operation conducted Wednesday and Thursday last week, according to court documents.The honeypot operation sought to capture perverts who used online platforms to exploit and meet children for sexual purposes by using undercover officers who posed as the children’s pimps.The accused real estate sicko believed he was participating in a online kid sex ring and messaged with the undercover officers using graphic, sexual language indicating his intent to engage in sexual conduct with children, according to prosecutors.T...