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

The pattern was almost similar.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse employee Angelina Barini met with her clients at motels in New York Metropolis before giving them harmful doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and go away with their personal belongings.

Four of them, together with a outstanding Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medicine, court docket data state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medication that killed her shoppers, including 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 individuals for a number of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Japanese District of New York, mentioned in a information launch. “She stole their personal belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the deadly medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not reply to a message from The Washington Post.

Barini met her first victim at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the person fentanyl-laced medication and left the room. Police found him useless hours later, courtroom data state.

Every 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 medication. The person also died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The following month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in Faculty Point, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced medicine that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors mentioned.

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her last recognized sufferer, 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, court records state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the victim’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, in line with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division found the man’s body within the motel room.

Based on courtroom information, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they observed a strong odor — that of a decomposing body 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 discovered a number of gadgets, including a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, court records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for sex. When she woke up, 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 general supervisor of Cipriani in New York, informed the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “dedicated hard worker” who cooked six days per week and “by no means missed a day of labor.”

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

“Everyone within the kitchen proper now's heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso mentioned.