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

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Between July and August 2019, intercourse worker Angelina Barini met together 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 men and go away with their personal belongings.

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

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

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 Japanese District of New York, mentioned in a news release. “She stole their personal 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 Post.

Barini met her first sufferer at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the man fentanyl-laced drugs and left the room. Police found him dead hours later, court docket information state.

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

The next month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in Faculty Level, 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 final known victim, 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 referred to as a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, court information state, Barini repeatedly tried to get rid of the victim’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, according to prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. That same day, the New York City Police Division discovered the man’s physique within the motel room.

According to court records, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they seen a robust odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini told investigators that “she did not do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Inside the motel room, authorities discovered several items, including a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, courtroom data state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she wakened, 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, told the New York Occasions that Zamperoni was a “devoted arduous employee” who cooked six days a week and “by no means missed a day of work.”

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

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