Pimpin’ ain’t straightforward for sleazy cops.
A former Suffolk County “Cop of the Month” landed two years in jail Monday for moonlighting as a mob-linked Holbrook brothel’s supervisor.
Disgraced ex-policeman George Trimigliozzi — a 56-year-old father of two who repeatedly obtained the excellent officer award throughout his 18-year profession with the county division — was sentenced after pleading responsible to selling prostitution and official misconduct fees.
At one level in 2021, the rogue cop even deserted his police submit to answer a theft on the brothel, the American Women Spa, rushing towards it at 90 mph in his patrol automotive, prosecutors stated.
“It’s significantly egregious when a sworn police officer abandons his obligation to take part incriminal exercise,” stated Ray Tierney, district legal professional for Suffolk County, in a press release.
“George Trimigliozzi violated public belief when he selected to handle a brothel as an alternative of upholding the regulation.”
A years-long probe resulted within the arrests final 12 months of Trimigliozzi and Steven Arey, a virtually three-decade-long worker of the Islip Faculty District, the place he labored as a phys ed instructor.
The seemingly straight-laced pair led double lives working as brothel managers for identified Mafia affiliate Frank Saggio, who hatched the prostitution scheme in 2019, prosecutors stated.
Saggio oversaw a community of brothels — together with the American Women Spa alongside Dawn Freeway and the Tunnel of Love in West Babylon — and demanded intercourse staff pay the crooks between $6,000 and $12,000 a month to function there.
Trimigliozzi, Saggio and the mobster’s girlfriend Dana Ciardullo, 33, who ran the Tunnel of Love, all pleaded responsible to fees in September.
Saggio, below his plea, should pay practically $1.88 million in restitution. He awaits sentencing.
Ciardullo’s sentencing is scheduled Dec. 18.
Prosecutors additionally accused Trimigliozzi in Could of sexually abusing a pair of girls whom he met on relationship apps, utilizing his badge to achieve their belief.
The sexual abuse and rape fees Trimigliozzi initially confronted have been dropped when he copped a plea to second-degree illegal imprisonment.
Arey, who faces an enterprise corruption cost and 27 counts of selling prostitution, is subsequent anticipated to seem in courtroom Wednesday.
