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

The pattern was nearly equivalent.

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

4 of them, including a prominent Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medicine, court data state.

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

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

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

Attorneys representing Barini did not respond to a message from The Washington Publish.

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 dead hours later, court records state.

A 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 drugs. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The subsequent month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in School Level, 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 final recognized 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 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 positioned it inside a trash bin, in keeping with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division found the man’s physique within the motel room.

According to court information, 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 body and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini advised investigators that “she didn't do it,” but in addition that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities found a number of objects, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, court docket records 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, would not let her call the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the overall manager of Cipriani in New York, informed the New York Occasions that Zamperoni was a “devoted exhausting worker” who cooked six days per week and “never missed a day of labor.”

The kitchen workers mourned the loss, Dallorso instructed the Instances.

“Everybody within the kitchen proper now could be heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso stated.