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

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Between July and August 2019, sex worker Angelina Barini met together with her shoppers at motels in New York City before giving them harmful doses of medicine that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the lads and depart 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 drugs that killed her purchasers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, recognized for inflicting irrational behavior, severe illness, coma and demise.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple people for a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Jap District of New York, said in a news launch. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the deadly medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not respond to a message from The Washington Put up.

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

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

The next month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in Faculty Point, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced medicine that led to a deadly overdose, prosecutors said.

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her last 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 often called a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

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

In keeping 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 robust odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the grievance states.

Barini advised investigators that “she did not do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities discovered a number of items, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, courtroom records state.

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

Fernando Dallorso, the overall supervisor of Cipriani in New York, told the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “devoted arduous worker” who cooked six days a week and “by no means missed a day of labor.”

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

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