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

The pattern was virtually equivalent.

Between July and August 2019, intercourse employee Angelina Barini met along with her purchasers at motels in New York City earlier than giving them harmful doses of medicine that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and depart with their personal belongings.

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

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medication that killed her shoppers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, known for causing irrational behavior, extreme sickness, coma and death.

Last week, a judge sentenced the 43-year-old Barini to 30 years in jail.

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple individuals for a number of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Eastern District of New York, said in a news release. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the lethal medicine she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't respond 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 person fentanyl-laced medicine and left the room. Police discovered him lifeless hours later, court docket data state.

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

The subsequent month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in School Level, 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 final known 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, generally known as a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket records state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the victim’s physique. 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 mentioned. That same day, the New York City Police Department found the person’s physique within the motel room.

In accordance with court docket records, 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 grievance states.

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

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini stated Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she awakened, Barini mentioned, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril and mouth. Her pimp, she added, wouldn't let her name the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the final manager of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “devoted hard employee” who cooked six days per week and “by no means missed a day of labor.”

The kitchen employees mourned the loss, Dallorso instructed the Occasions.

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