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

The pattern was nearly similar.

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

4 of them, together with a outstanding Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medication, courtroom records state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing drugs that killed her shoppers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational habits, severe 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 individuals for just a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Eastern District of New York, mentioned in a information release. “She stole their personal belongings whereas 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 person fentanyl-laced medicine and left the room. Police found him lifeless hours later, courtroom 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 grievance states.

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

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her last known 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 eliminate the sufferer’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in accordance with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That very same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division found the person’s body 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 seen a robust odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini advised investigators that “she didn't do it,” but also that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities found several items, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medication, court data state.

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

Fernando Dallorso, the overall manager of Cipriani in New York, told the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “dedicated arduous worker” who cooked six days every week and “never missed a day of work.”

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

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