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

The pattern was virtually identical.

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

Four of them, including a outstanding Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, courtroom information state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing drugs that killed her purchasers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for inflicting irrational behavior, extreme illness, coma and death.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of individuals for a number of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Jap District of New York, said in a information release. “She stole their personal belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the deadly drugs she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't 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 man fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police found him lifeless hours later, courtroom information 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 following month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in School Level, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced medicine that led to a deadly overdose, prosecutors said.

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

That day, court docket data state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the sufferer’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, in keeping with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. That same day, the New York City Police Division found the person’s physique within the motel room.

In keeping with court docket data, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. As soon as investigators made it into the room, they seen a strong odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini told 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, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, courtroom records state.

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

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

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

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