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

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

4 of them, including a outstanding Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, court records state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing drugs that killed her clients, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for inflicting irrational habits, severe sickness, 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 folks for a couple of quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, mentioned in a information release. “She stole their personal belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the lethal drugs she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't respond to a message from The Washington Put up.

Barini met her first victim at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the person fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police discovered him lifeless hours later, court docket data state.

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

The following month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in College Level, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced medication that led to a deadly overdose, prosecutors said.

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

That day, court docket records state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the sufferer’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in response to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division discovered the man’s body in the motel room.

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

Barini advised investigators that “she didn't do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities found several gadgets, including a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court data state.

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

Fernando Dallorso, the overall manager of Cipriani in New York, instructed the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “dedicated laborious employee” who cooked six days per week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

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

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