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

The pattern was virtually equivalent.

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

Four of them, including a prominent Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, courtroom data state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medication that killed her clients, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for inflicting irrational behavior, extreme illness, coma and death.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of folks for a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Jap District of New York, stated in a information launch. “She stole their private belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't reply 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 drugs and left the room. Police discovered him lifeless hours later, court data state.

Per week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with another man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, where she gave him fentanyl-laced drugs. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a criticism states.

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

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

That day, court docket records state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the victim’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in response to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division found the person’s body in the motel room.

In keeping with court docket data, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they seen a robust odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the grievance states.

Barini told 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 items, including a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, court data state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she wakened, Barini mentioned, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril and mouth. Her pimp, she added, would not let her call the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the general manager of Cipriani in New York, informed the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “dedicated exhausting employee” who cooked six days a week and “never missed a day of work.”

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

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