Three people including a former police officer pleaded guilty to operating Long Island brothels that facilitated a prostitution ring.
Frank Saggio, 61, “led a criminal enterprise that profited from the systematic promotion of prostitution at two locations in Suffolk County from to 2019 to 2024,” according to Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney’s office.
Former Suffolk County cop George Trimigliozzi, 56, and Dana Ciardullo — Saggio’s 33-year-old girlfriend — confessed to managing houses of ill repute for Saggio’s booming business, officials said.
Prosecutors said Saggio required sex workers to pay a $6,000 monthly fee to do business at one location in Holbrook managed by George Trimigliozzi, who was an 18-year veteran of the Suffolk County Police Department before joining Saggio’s team. The ex-cop allegedly ran that operation with a 26-year Islip School District employee who’s still awaiting trial.
Prostitutes allegedly paid up to $12,000 to work in the West Babylon brothel operated by Ciardullo.
“These guilty pleas represent accountability for those who violated the public’s trust and engaged in organized criminal activity,” the District Attorney said in a statement released Monday.
Saggio agreed Friday to pay $1,875,000 in forfeiture and serve two to six years in prison when he’s sentenced in December. Prosecutors said Trimigliozzi will be sentenced to two years incarceration for promoting prostitution and official misconduct. Ciardullo is expected to serve six months behind bars followed by five years of probation for promoting prostitution.
