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

The pattern was nearly identical.

Between July and August 2019, sex employee Angelina Barini met along with her shoppers at motels in New York City earlier than giving them dangerous doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the boys and depart with their personal belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medication that killed her clients, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for inflicting irrational behavior, 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 folks for just a few fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, mentioned in a information launch. “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 Submit.

Barini met her first victim 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 records 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 man additionally died of a drug overdose, a grievance states.

The subsequent month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in College Point, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced drugs that led to a deadly overdose, prosecutors mentioned.

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her final identified victim, 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 man died shortly afterward.

That day, courtroom records state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the sufferer’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, according to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. That same day, the New York City Police Division discovered the man’s physique within the motel room.

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

Barini informed investigators that “she did not do it,” but in addition that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities found a number of gadgets, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medication, court records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini stated Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she awoke, Barini said, 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 “devoted onerous worker” who cooked six days a week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

The kitchen staff mourned the loss, Dallorso instructed the Occasions.

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