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

The pattern was almost similar.

Between July and August 2019, sex worker Angelina Barini met along with her shoppers at motels in New York City before giving them harmful doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and leave with their private belongings.

4 of them, together with a distinguished Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medicine, court docket data state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medication that killed her purchasers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for inflicting irrational habits, severe illness, coma and demise.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of individuals for a number of quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, mentioned in a information release. “She stole their private belongings while 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 drugs and left the room. Police discovered him lifeless hours later, courtroom records state.

Every week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with another man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, where she gave him fentanyl-laced medication. The person also died of a drug overdose, a grievance states.

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

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her final known victim, 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, commonly often called a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

That day, court information state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the sufferer’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, according to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That same day, the New York City Police Division found the person’s body in the motel room.

According to court information, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they seen a robust odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini told investigators that “she didn't do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities found a number of objects, together with a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, court records state.

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

Fernando Dallorso, the overall manager of Cipriani in New York, informed the New York Occasions that Zamperoni was a “dedicated exhausting employee” who cooked six days per week and “never missed a day of labor.”

The kitchen staff mourned the loss, Dallorso instructed the Occasions.

“Everyone within the kitchen proper now could be heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso stated.