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

The pattern was almost equivalent.

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

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

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medication that killed her purchasers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, known for inflicting irrational habits, severe sickness, coma and loss of life.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple individuals for a few fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Jap District of New York, said in a information release. “She stole their personal belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the deadly drugs 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 man fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police found him dead hours later, court records 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 medicine. The man also died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The subsequent month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in School Level, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced medicine that led to a deadly overdose, prosecutors mentioned.

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 referred to as a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

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

In response to 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 observed a robust odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini told investigators that “she didn't do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities found a number of gadgets, including a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, courtroom information state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for sex. When she awakened, 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, instructed the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “dedicated hard employee” who cooked six days per week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

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

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