New York sex worker 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 before giving them dangerous doses of medicine that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and leave with their personal belongings.

4 of them, together with a outstanding Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, court docket information state.

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

Final 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 couple of quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Japanese District of New York, stated in a news launch. “She stole their private 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 Publish.

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

Per 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 man additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The subsequent month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in School Point, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced drugs that led to a deadly overdose, prosecutors said.

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 person died shortly afterward.

That day, courtroom data state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the sufferer’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, according to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Department found the person’s body within the motel room.

In accordance with 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 noticed a strong odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the grievance states.

Barini advised investigators that “she didn't do it,” but also that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities discovered several objects, including a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court docket data state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she awakened, Barini said, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nose and mouth. Her pimp, she added, would not let her call the police.

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

The kitchen employees mourned the loss, Dallorso told the Occasions.

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