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

The pattern was virtually an identical.

Between July and August 2019, sex worker Angelina Barini met together with her purchasers at motels in New York Metropolis earlier than giving them harmful doses of medication 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 medication, court data state.

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

Last 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 few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Eastern District of New York, said in a news release. “She stole their private belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the deadly medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not 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 man fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police discovered him lifeless hours later, courtroom information state.

Every 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 person also died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The following month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in Faculty Point, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced drugs that led to a fatal 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, where she drugged him with gamma-butyrolactone, generally known as a “date rape” drug. The man 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 placed it inside a trash bin, in line with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That same day, the New York City Police Department found the person’s body within the motel room.

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

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

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

Fernando Dallorso, the general manager of Cipriani in New York, instructed the New York Occasions that Zamperoni was a “devoted laborious worker” who cooked six days a week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

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

“Everybody in the kitchen right now could be heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso mentioned.