The Brooklyn District Court sentenced Angelina Barini, the 43-year-old Canadian escort accused of causing the death by poisoning of the Lodi chef of Cipriani Dolci in New York, Andrea Zamperoni , to thirty years in prison.
The 33-year-old, originally from Zorlesco, a hamlet of Casalpusterlengo, in the Lodi area, had been working for the well-known chain of Cipriani restaurants for about ten years and one had moved to the States when he was found dead, on 21 August 2019, in a motel in Queens. . According to the allegations, Barini used a cocktail of narcotics, including the powerful opioid fentanyl, three days earlier to deceive him and rob him.
The sentence was pronounced overnight by Judge Brian Cogan.
There would be three other victims of the woman. "The defendant drugged and killed multiple people for a few easy dollars, robbed them as they lay unconscious and dying from the lethal drugs she gave them," says the New York City District Attorney's Office. Barini, he explains himself, "showed a shocking contempt for human life. The sentence will have to serve as a warning to future authors that there are very heavy consequences to these horrible crimes ".
The involvement of an alleged accomplice, Leslie Lescano, 45, formerly of Barini and pusher, remains to be clarified. According to investigators, the two had been preparing the crime for days. When Zamperoni was dead or otherwise already unconscious, Lescano - who was hidden in the bathroom of the motel room - would take his credit card and go to a local market to buy food for Barini. Then he would try to get more money.
