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

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Between July and August 2019, sex worker Angelina Barini met together with her clients at motels in New York City earlier than giving them harmful doses of medication that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the lads and leave with their personal belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing drugs that killed her purchasers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, known for inflicting irrational behavior, extreme sickness, coma and dying.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of people for a number of quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Japanese District of New York, mentioned in a information release. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the lethal drugs she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't respond to a message from The Washington Post.

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 discovered him useless hours later, court docket information state.

A 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 medicine. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a criticism states.

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

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, commonly often known as a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket data 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 response to 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.

In line with 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 observed a robust odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini informed investigators that “she didn't do it,” but also that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities found a number of items, including a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court data state.

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

Fernando Dallorso, the final supervisor of Cipriani in New York, informed the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “devoted onerous employee” who cooked six days a week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

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

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