New York sex worker 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 clients at motels in New York City earlier than giving them harmful doses of medication that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the lads and go away with their personal belongings.

4 of them, including a prominent Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, court docket records state.

In August, Barini pleaded guilty to distributing medication that killed her clients, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational habits, extreme sickness, coma and demise.

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

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of folks for a few quick dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. lawyer for the Jap District of New York, said in a news release. “She stole their personal belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medicine she gave them.”

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

Barini met her first sufferer 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 information state.

Every 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 medicine. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a grievance states.

The following month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in School Point, Queens, and again gave him fentanyl-laced medication that led to a deadly overdose, prosecutors stated.

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

That day, court data state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the sufferer’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 lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. That same day, the New York Metropolis Police Division found the man’s body in the motel room.

In accordance with courtroom records, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. As soon as investigators made it into the room, they noticed a robust odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the criticism states.

Barini informed investigators that “she did not do it,” but also that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered several gadgets, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke medicine, court docket records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini said Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she wakened, 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 overall supervisor of Cipriani in New York, instructed the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “dedicated hard employee” who cooked six days a week and “never missed a day of work.”

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

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