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

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Between July and August 2019, sex employee Angelina Barini met along with her purchasers at motels in New York Metropolis before giving them dangerous doses of medication that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the boys and go away with their private belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medicine that killed her shoppers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational conduct, extreme illness, coma and dying.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of people for a couple of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Jap District of New York, said in a information launch. “She stole their private 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 person fentanyl-laced medication and left the room. Police discovered him dead hours later, court docket data state.

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

The next month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in College Point, 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 last identified 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, commonly generally known as a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket information state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the victim’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, in accordance with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported missing on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That very same day, the New York City Police Department discovered the man’s body in the motel room.

According to 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 complaint states.

Barini instructed 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, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, court docket records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she woke up, Barini stated, 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 manager of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Occasions that Zamperoni was a “dedicated arduous worker” who cooked six days per week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

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

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