A disgraced veteran-turned-teacher nicknamed “Major Hands” was hit with federal charges for allegedly turning his upstate New York home into a brothel where he hosted raucous “prostitution parties.”
Eric Simpson, a 66-year-old technology teacher in the North Rose-Wolcott Central School District, allegedly moonlighted as a pimp as he “regularly promoted, managed, and carried on prostitution parties” at his Macedon home from 2021 to late 2025, according to the feds.
The retired member of the New York National Guard “arranged to have commercial sex workers present and available to perform commercial sex acts with Simpson and with those he invited to the parties,” states the indictment, filed against him on March 10.
Simpson allegedly used his email address to advertise the raunchy raves, including up-to-date lists of which sex workers would be performing inside the home, according to federal prosecutors in the Western District of New York.
The emails also instructed clients to negotiate payment, or “donations for services,” with the “dancers,” the indictment charges.
Simpson even allegedly set a “cover charge for admission” to the parties, managed what rooms or “accommodations” were available to clients and directed the clandestine visitors to parking spots away from his home, the court document states.
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Simpson — who was also identified as “Major Hands” in the indictment — was a guardsman for 29 years, serving overseas in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan before ending his tenure as a commissioned officer in Rochester and Troy, New York in 2010, according to his LinkedIn.
He worked as a substitute English teacher in Monroe County Public Schools up through his most recent position as a technology teacher in the North Rose-Wolcott Central School District, said he resigned from the position in January, in a statement to 13 WHAM.
Simpson was indicted on one count of use of interstate facilities to promote, manage, establish, carry on and facilitate a prostitution enterprise.
He was arraigned on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty.
