New York intercourse 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 earlier than giving them dangerous doses of medicine that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the lads and depart with their personal belongings.

Four of them, together with a distinguished Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medication, court data state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medicine that killed her shoppers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational behavior, severe illness, coma and dying.

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

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

Attorneys representing Barini did not reply 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 person fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police discovered him dead hours later, courtroom data state.

A week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with another man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, the place she gave him fentanyl-laced medicine. The person additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

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

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

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

In accordance with court docket 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 seen a strong odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini told investigators that “she didn't do it,” but in addition that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered a number of gadgets, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, court docket information state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she awakened, Barini mentioned, 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, advised the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “devoted laborious worker” who cooked six days every week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

The kitchen workers mourned the loss, Dallorso informed the Times.

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