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

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Between July and August 2019, sex employee 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 personal belongings.

4 of them, including a outstanding Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medication, courtroom data state.

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

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple individuals for a number of quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a news launch. “She stole their private belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not reply 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 person fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police discovered him dead hours later, court information state.

Every 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 subsequent month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in College 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 recognized sufferer, 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, generally often known as a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, courtroom information state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the victim’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in line with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. That very same day, the New York City Police Department discovered the person’s physique within the motel room.

In accordance with court data, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they seen a strong odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini told investigators that “she didn't do it,” but in addition that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered several gadgets, including a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medication, courtroom information state.

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

Fernando Dallorso, the final supervisor of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “devoted arduous employee” who cooked six days a week and “by no means missed a day of labor.”

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

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