New York intercourse 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 with her purchasers at motels in New York City earlier than giving them dangerous doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the boys and go away with their private belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medicine that killed her purchasers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for causing irrational conduct, severe illness, 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 people for a couple of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, stated in a news launch. “She stole their personal belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the deadly medication she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't reply to a message from The Washington Post.

Barini met her first sufferer at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the man fentanyl-laced medication and left the room. Police found him lifeless hours later, court docket information 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 person additionally died of a drug overdose, a grievance states.

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

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

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

According to court data, 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 body and burning incense, the criticism 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 medicine, courtroom records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she awakened, 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 manager of Cipriani in New York, told the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “dedicated onerous employee” who cooked six days a week and “never missed a day of labor.”

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

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