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

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Between July and August 2019, intercourse worker Angelina Barini met together 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 men and depart with their personal belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medication that killed her purchasers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational habits, severe illness, coma and demise.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple people for just a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Jap District of New York, said in a news release. “She stole their personal belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the deadly medication she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't reply 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 discovered him useless hours later, court docket 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 medicine. The person additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

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

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, where she drugged him with gamma-butyrolactone, generally known as a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, courtroom information state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the sufferer’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in line with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division discovered the man’s body within the motel room.

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

Barini instructed investigators that “she did not do it,” but in addition that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered a number of gadgets, including a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court information state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for sex. 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 general supervisor of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “devoted arduous worker” who cooked six days every week and “never missed a day of labor.”

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

“Everybody in the kitchen proper now could be heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso stated.