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

The pattern was almost an identical.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse employee Angelina Barini met together with her clients at motels in New York City earlier than giving them dangerous doses of medicine that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and depart with their private belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medicine that killed her shoppers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for inflicting irrational habits, extreme illness, coma and death.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of folks for a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, stated in a news launch. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medication she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't respond 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 medicine and left the room. Police discovered him lifeless hours later, court docket data state.

Every 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 drugs. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a criticism states.

The next month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in College Level, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced medication that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors mentioned.

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

That day, courtroom records state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the sufferer’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 lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That very same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division discovered the man’s physique within the motel room.

In line with court records, 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 physique and burning incense, the grievance states.

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

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

Fernando Dallorso, the overall supervisor of Cipriani in New York, instructed the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “devoted laborious employee” who cooked six days per week and “never missed a day of labor.”

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

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