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

The pattern was almost an identical.

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

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

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medicine that killed her purchasers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational habits, severe illness, coma and demise.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple individuals for just a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Jap District of New York, stated 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 respond 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 man fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police found him lifeless hours later, courtroom data 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 medication. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a grievance states.

The following month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in College Point, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced medication that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors said.

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, commonly known as a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

That day, court information state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the sufferer’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in line with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That very same day, the New York City Police Department found the man’s physique within the motel room.

In line with courtroom records, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they observed a robust odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini told investigators that “she did not do it,” but also 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 drugs, court data state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for sex. When she wakened, Barini stated, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril 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 onerous worker” who cooked six days a week and “never missed a day of work.”

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

“Everybody in the kitchen right now's heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso said.