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

The pattern was almost identical.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse worker Angelina Barini met along with her shoppers at motels in New York Metropolis earlier than giving them dangerous doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and depart with their private belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing drugs that killed her purchasers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for causing irrational behavior, extreme sickness, coma and death.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple people for a few fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Jap District of New York, stated in a information release. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medicine she gave them.”

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

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 lifeless 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, the place she gave him fentanyl-laced medicine. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a grievance states.

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

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

That day, court docket data state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the sufferer’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, according to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That same day, the New York City Police Department found the man’s body in the motel room.

According to court 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 robust odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the criticism 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 found several gadgets, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medication, court docket data state.

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

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

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

“Everyone in the kitchen proper now is heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso stated.