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

The pattern was virtually an identical.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse employee Angelina Barini met together with her clients at motels in New York City earlier than giving them harmful doses of medicine that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and leave with their private belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing drugs that killed her shoppers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, known for inflicting irrational conduct, extreme sickness, coma and demise.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of folks for a couple of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, stated in a information launch. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the deadly medication she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not respond 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 man fentanyl-laced medicine and left the room. Police found him lifeless hours later, court records 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 medication. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The next month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in College Level, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced medicine that led to a deadly overdose, prosecutors stated.

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

That day, court records state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the victim’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in response to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That very same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division discovered the person’s physique in the motel room.

Based on court docket information, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. As soon as investigators made it into the room, they observed a robust odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini informed investigators that “she did not do it,” but in addition that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities discovered a number of objects, together with a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court docket records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini stated Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she woke up, 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 manager of Cipriani in New York, told the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “devoted exhausting worker” who cooked six days per week and “never missed a day of labor.”

The kitchen workers mourned the loss, Dallorso advised the Occasions.

“Everyone within the kitchen proper now could be heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso stated.