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

The pattern was almost an identical.

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

Four of them, including a prominent Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medication, court docket information state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medication that killed her shoppers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational behavior, extreme sickness, coma and dying.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of individuals for a few fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Japanese District of New York, stated in a news launch. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the deadly drugs she gave them.”

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

Barini met her first victim at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the man fentanyl-laced medication and left the room. Police discovered him useless hours later, court data state.

Per week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with one other man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, where she gave him fentanyl-laced medication. The person additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The next month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in College 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 last 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, generally referred to as a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, court information state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the victim’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, in response to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That same day, the New York City Police Department discovered the person’s body within the motel room.

In line with court 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 robust odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini instructed investigators that “she didn't do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered several gadgets, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, court docket information state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said 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, would not let her name the police.

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

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

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