New York sex employee Angelina Barini sentenced to 30 years for fatally drugging 4 males

The pattern was almost equivalent.

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

Four of them, together with a distinguished Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medication, court data state.

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

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of individuals for a few fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Japanese District of New York, stated in a information release. “She stole their personal belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the deadly medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not reply 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 person fentanyl-laced medication and left the room. Police found him dead hours later, court docket data 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 medicine. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

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

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her final recognized victim, Andrea Zamperoni — a chef for the high-end restaurant chain Cipriani — inside an Elmhurst, Queens, motel room, where she drugged him with gamma-butyrolactone, generally generally known as a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, court records state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the victim’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, in keeping with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That very same day, the New York Metropolis Police Department found the person’s body within the motel room.

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

Barini informed investigators that “she didn't do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered a number of items, including a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court docket information state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she wakened, 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 final supervisor of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “dedicated arduous employee” who cooked six days per week and “never missed a day of work.”

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

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