A former Long Island police officer was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for promoting prostitution after pleading guilty to operating a brothel in Suffolk County, prosecutors said.
George Trimigliozzi, 56, of Islip, served as the co-manager of a brothel in Holbrook between October 2019 and March 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
The 18-year veteran of the Suffolk County Police Department managed a brothel on Sunrise Highway— known as the American Girls Spa — along with co-defendant Steven Arey, a 26-year employee of the Islip School District. Both men were part of a “criminal enterprise that profited from the systematic promotion of prostitution in Suffolk County,” investigators said.
Trimigliozzi, who pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution and official misconduct in September 2025, admitted that he abandoned his police duties on March 19, 2021, when he responded to a robbery at his brothel, driving nearly 90 mph in his patrol car despite knowing the SCPD had not authorized him to leave his post.
“It is particularly egregious when a sworn police officer abandons his duty to participate in criminal activity,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney said.
“Trimigliozzi violated public trust when he chose to manage a brothel instead of upholding the law,” Tierney added.
Two other people also pleaded guilty to their roles in the criminal enterprise: its 61-year-old leader, Frank Saggio, and Dana Ciardullo, Saggio’s 33-year-old girlfriend and the manager of a location in West Babylon known as Tunnel of Love.
Saggio’s sentence is pending, but he has agreed to pay nearly $1.9 million in forfeiture as part of his plea agreement. Ciardullo is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 18.
Arey pleaded not guilty to enterprise corruption and 27 counts of promoting prostitution. His case is still pending.
