Who is Angelina Barini? Queens prostitute sentenced to 30 years for fatally drugging 4 men
BROOKLYN NEW YORK: A Queens prostitute was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday, April 26, for the drug-related deaths of Cipriani Dolci head chef Andrea Zamperoni and three other men in 2019. 43-year-old Angelina Barini pleaded guilty in August 2021 to distributing fentanyl to several men, and the 'date rape' GBL to Zemperoni, in an attempt to rob incapacitated clients.
The sentence was delivered in Brooklyn federal court by US District Judge Brian Cogan. Cogan said that Barini's chilling crimes “calls out for punishment” although she has a troubled family history and a drug habit that “robbed her” of some free will. “There is no level of disadvantage of being raised that can mitigate what you did here … drug addiction or no drug addiction, something has to kick in,” Cogan said. Barini was seen weeping numerous times during the sentencing.
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One of her victims' cousin spoke before the sentencing, claiming she does not feel sorry for Barini. "I understand she doesn’t have a good history,” New York Post quoted the cousin as saying. “I don’t have a good history. It’s no excuse. She killed four people … She deserves what she gets now.” She said that her cousin was going to school with the dream of getting into construction. “You ruined that. I don’t forgive you,” the cousin said. “We were best friends. She took that away. She took that away. I don’t feel sorry for you.”
According to prosecutors, in the summer of 2019, Barini had served up fentanyl-laced drug doses to victims multiple times as part of her robbery scheme. She served the date rape drug to Zamperoni, who died in an Elmhurt motel. To dispose of the body, Barini wrapped it in bleach-stained sheets and stuffed it into a garbage bin.
Barini’s older sister, Sally, told New York Post that she was planning to appeal as she believed the sentence was “a little harsh”. “I think what wasn’t taken into account was that of course what happened was wrong but the victims put themselves in there,” Sally said. “They weren’t saints. They went with her. They wanted to party and they wanted to do drugs with her and have sex. It wasn’t like she put a gun to somebody’s head and forced them to go with her.”
Sally insisted that Barini, a drug addict, got involved with the wrong people. “This is a federal case yet the government can sit there when they are letting hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens come across the border with fentanyl every day,” she said. “Hundreds of thousands of people are dying from this … and they sit there and act like they have no part of this.”