New York intercourse worker Angelina Barini sentenced to 30 years for fatally drugging 4 men

The pattern was virtually equivalent.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse worker Angelina Barini met together with her clients at motels in New York City earlier than giving them harmful doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the boys and leave with their private belongings.

4 of them, including a distinguished Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, courtroom data state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medicine that killed her purchasers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational conduct, severe illness, coma and death.

Last week, a decide sentenced the 43-year-old Barini to 30 years in prison.

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple individuals for a number of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Jap District of New York, mentioned in a information launch. “She stole their private belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medication she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not respond to a message from The Washington Put up.

Barini met her first sufferer at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the man fentanyl-laced medicine and left the room. Police found him useless hours later, courtroom records state.

A week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with one other man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, the place she gave him fentanyl-laced medication. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The subsequent month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in School Level, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced medication that led to a deadly overdose, prosecutors mentioned.

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her final identified sufferer, Andrea Zamperoni — a chef for the high-end restaurant chain Cipriani — inside an Elmhurst, Queens, motel room, the place she drugged him with gamma-butyrolactone, generally often called a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket data state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the victim’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in line with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That same day, the New York City Police Department discovered the person’s body in the motel room.

According to court docket information, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they observed a powerful odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini advised investigators that “she did not do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered several items, together with a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, courtroom data state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for sex. When she woke up, Barini mentioned, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril and mouth. Her pimp, she added, would not let her name the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the overall supervisor of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “devoted arduous worker” who cooked six days per week and “never missed a day of labor.”

The kitchen employees mourned the loss, Dallorso advised the Times.

“Everyone within the kitchen right now's heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso stated.