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

The pattern was virtually an identical.

Between July and August 2019, sex worker Angelina Barini met together with her shoppers at motels in New York Metropolis before giving them dangerous doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and go away with their private belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medication that killed her clients, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, known for inflicting irrational conduct, severe sickness, coma and loss of life.

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

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

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

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

Per week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with one other man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, where she gave him fentanyl-laced medicine. The man also died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

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

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

That day, courtroom data state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the victim’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, in keeping with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors mentioned. That very same day, the New York Metropolis Police Department found the person’s physique in the motel room.

In line 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 observed a powerful odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini advised investigators that “she didn't do it,” but in addition that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities discovered several items, including a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, courtroom data state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for sex. When she woke up, Barini mentioned, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nose and mouth. Her pimp, she added, wouldn't let her call the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the final manager of Cipriani in New York, told the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “dedicated hard worker” who cooked six days every week and “by no means missed a day of labor.”

The kitchen employees mourned the loss, Dallorso advised the Times.

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