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

The pattern was almost similar.

Between July and August 2019, sex employee Angelina Barini met together with her purchasers at motels in New York City 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, including a distinguished Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, court docket data state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing drugs that killed her clients, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for causing irrational conduct, severe illness, coma and demise.

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

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

Attorneys representing Barini didn't reply 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 man fentanyl-laced medication and left the room. Police found him dead hours later, courtroom information state.

A week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with one other man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, the place 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 Faculty Level, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced medicine that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors stated.

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

That day, court docket data state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the victim’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, based on prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Department discovered the man’s physique within the motel room.

According to courtroom information, 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 physique and burning incense, the complaint states.

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

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

Fernando Dallorso, the general supervisor of Cipriani in New York, told the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “devoted hard worker” who cooked six days a week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

The kitchen staff mourned the loss, Dallorso advised the Times.

“Everyone in the kitchen proper now's heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso mentioned.