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

The pattern was almost an identical.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse worker Angelina Barini met with her purchasers at motels in New York City before giving them harmful doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and go away with their personal belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medicine that killed her shoppers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, known for causing irrational habits, extreme sickness, coma and loss of life.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple folks for just a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, mentioned in a news launch. “She stole their personal belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the lethal drugs she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not reply to a message from The Washington Post.

Barini met her first sufferer at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the person fentanyl-laced medicine and left the room. Police discovered him useless hours later, court docket data 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 drugs. The person additionally 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 drugs that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors said.

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

That day, courtroom information state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the sufferer’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, in response to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division found the man’s physique in the motel room.

Based on 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 powerful odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini informed investigators that “she did not do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities found a number of items, including a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medication, court docket records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she awoke, Barini said, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril and mouth. Her pimp, she added, wouldn't let her call the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the overall supervisor of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “devoted onerous employee” who cooked six days a week and “never missed a day of labor.”

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

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