A New Jersey attorney who was arrested last month for the rape of three women and an attempted rape of a fourth has now been charged with attacking four more women.
Matthew Nilo, 35, was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday for attacking four women in Boston’s historic North End neighborhood between 2007 and 2008.
He was previously charged with seven counts including aggravated rape, kidnapping, indecent assault with intent to rape and assault in a string of attacks that took place at around the same time in the Charlestown neighborhood.
Nilo pleaded not guilty to those charges, and was released from Boston jail after his fiancé posted $500,000 of his $5million bail and he was fitted with a GPS ankle monitor.
His lawyer, Joseph Cataldo, said he now plans to fight the new charges as well — which include one count of rape, one count of aggravated rape, three counts of assault with intent to rape and two counts of indecent assault and battery,
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‘Mr. Nilo denies all the allegations including the latest charges,’ Cataldo said in a statement. ‘You can expect both a legal and a factual challenge to the government’s case.’
Matthew Nilo, 35, right, is facing new charges for the rapes of four women in Boston’s North End neighborhood in 2007 and 2008. He was previously charge with three other rapes and one attempted rape in the Charlestown neighborhood at the same time
Boston police believed the rapes in Boston’s North End were connected, and released a composite sketch of the suspect. Nilo is pictured on the right at around the same time
Prosecutors allege that Nilo, a Boston native, attacked four women in the North End in 2007 and 2008 — including two attacks on the same woman just 11 days apart.
One attack on January 14, 2008 occurred during the middle of a snowstorm, WCVB reports, while another took place on July 4, 2008.
The string of assaults left the neighborhood on edge at the time, as police warned women to be vigilant and even wear rape whistles.
Authorities said at the time they believed the rapes in the neighborhood were connected, and released a composite sketch of the suspect, which does appear to bear a resemblance to Nilo at the time.
‘The newly-indicted attacks occurred at the time Nilo was living in the North End and during the same period as the attacks against women in Charlestown, for which Nilo is already charged,’ the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement announcing the new charges against Nilo Tuesday.
‘The incidents followed a similar pattern. The victims were attacked while they were walking alone, in the dark, either at night or early in the morning.’
District Attorney Kevin Hayden said more information about the new charges will be released when Nilo is arraigned next month.
‘But I can tell you that DNA evidence played a role in these new indictments,’ he told the Boston Globe.
Nilo, pictured entering court on June 5, has pleaded not guilty to charges related to the rapes in Charlestown
Nilo was released from a Boston jail on June 15 when his fiancé, Laura Griffin, center, posted $500,000 of his bail
Nilo is seen partying with friends during his days at a Boston private school in 2007
Police arrested Nilo on May 30 in an FBI sting in which he was lured out of the luxury harbor side apartment he shared with his fiancé, Laura Griffin, with the claim that a package had been delivered that was too big to fit in the swanky facility’s lockers.
Law enforcement claims to have linked Nilo to the four assaults in Charlestown with DNA evidence identified through the genealogy database 23 and Me, to which family members had voluntarily submitted samples.
The Sexual Assault Kit Initiative – a federal program designed to help process a backlog of rape kits – was used in the investigation after Boston Police Department reached out last October.
By April Nilo had been identified as a suspect according to FBI Special Agent Joseph R Bonavolonta.
He then waived his extradition back to Massachusetts, and was charged in the Charlestown rapes, in which, prosecutors say, Nilo picked up women downtown and brought them to Terminal Street, where he would assault them.
Alleged victim Lori spoke to DailyMail.com outside of a Boston courtroom, calling Nilo ‘a very evil person and he used weapons and force to violently kidnap and rape multiple women’
Nilo’s first alleged victim Lori Pinkham spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com, sharing her ordeal publicly.
Pinkham admitted that she had lost hope that her attacker would ever be caught and said she was, ‘in disbelief and awe’ when police came to her home and told her they had identified him.
She said, ‘He’s a very evil person and he used weapons and force to violently kidnap and rape multiple women.’
Pinkham could not get into the details of her own assault, she said, but is prepared to testify against Nilo if called to by prosecutors.
Meanwhile, Nilo’s attorney says he intends to challenge the constitutionality of the evidence collected by police and federal authorities used to arrest him.
Nilo was ordered to surrender his passport, have no contact with the victims or witnesses and stay at least 1,000 feet away from Terminal Street, where the alleged Charlestown rapes occurred
Nilo was released from a Boston jail on June 15 after Griffin paid $500,000 towards his bail.
He was fitted for a GPS tracker and was released on the condition he surrender his passport, have no contact with the victims or witnesses and stay at least 1,000 feet away from Terminal Street.
Exclusive DailyMail.com pictures and video show Nilo walking from the courthouse with his Griffin, who clutched his hand tightly throughout.
But further charges may be forthcoming, as police in Madison, Wisconsin — where Nilo attended college — are looking back at their old cases to se if there may be any connection with the suspect.
‘Our detectives are aware of Matthew Nilo,’ the police department said in a statement to WCVB.
‘We are working with Boston police [and] reviewing old cases to see if there is any connection.’