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

The pattern was nearly an identical.

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

Four of them, together with a prominent Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, court records state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medication that killed her clients, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational behavior, severe sickness, coma and loss of life.

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

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

Attorneys representing Barini didn't 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 discovered him useless 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 drugs. The person additionally died of a drug overdose, a grievance states.

The following month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in Faculty 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 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 generally known as a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket records state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the sufferer’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in accordance with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That same day, the New York City Police Department found the man’s physique in the motel room.

According to courtroom 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 noticed a strong odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini informed investigators that “she did not do it,” but also that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered several objects, together with a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court docket data state.

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

Fernando Dallorso, the general manager of Cipriani in New York, instructed the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “dedicated hard worker” who cooked six days a week and “never missed a day of labor.”

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

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