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

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

4 of them, together with a outstanding Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medication, court docket information state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing drugs that killed her clients, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for inflicting irrational behavior, extreme illness, coma and dying.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple people for a number of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Eastern District of New York, mentioned in a information launch. “She stole their private belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medication she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not reply to a message from The Washington Publish.

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

A 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 also died of a drug overdose, a criticism states.

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

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, the place 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 get rid of the sufferer’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 stated. That very same day, the New York City Police Department found the person’s physique within the motel room.

In line with court docket data, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they seen a powerful odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini instructed investigators that “she didn't do it,” but also that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities found several objects, including a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini stated Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for sex. When she woke up, Barini mentioned, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nose and mouth. Her pimp, she added, would not let her name the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the final supervisor of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Occasions that Zamperoni was a “devoted hard worker” who cooked six days a week and “never missed a day of work.”

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

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