A New Jersey lawyer who was arrested last month for the rape of three women and the attempted rape of a fourth has now been charged with assaulting four more women.
Matthew Nilo, 35, was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday for assaulting four women in Boston’s historic North End neighborhood between 2007 and 2008.
He was previously charged with seven charges including aggravated rape, kidnapping, indecent assault with intent to rape and assault in a series of assaults that occurred around the same time in the Charlestown neighborhood.
Nilo pleaded not guilty to those charges and was released from Boston jail after his fiancée posted $500,000 of his $5 million bail and was fitted with a GPS ankle monitor.
His attorney, Joseph Cataldo, said he now also plans to challenge the new charges — which include one count of rape, one count of aggravated rape, three counts of assault with intent to rape, and two counts of assault and injuries to indecency.
‘Mr. Nilo denies all allegations, including the latest charges,” Cataldo said in a statement. “You can expect both legal and factual challenge to the government’s case.”
Matthew Nilo, 35, right, faces new charges for the rape of four women in Boston’s North End neighborhood in 2007 and 2008. He was previously charged with three other rapes and one attempted rape in the Charlestown neighborhood at the same time .
The Boston Police Department believed the rapes in Boston’s North End were related and released a composite sketch of the suspect. Nilo is pictured on the right around the same time
Prosecutors allege that Boston native Nilo assaulted four women in the North End in 2007 and 2008 — including two assaults on the same woman just 11 days apart.
An attack on January 14, 2008 occurred in the middle of a snow storm, WCVB reports, while another occurred on July 4, 2008.
The series of attacks caused tension in the neighborhood at the time, as police warned women to be vigilant and even carry rape whistles.
Authorities at the time said they believed the nearby rapes were connected, and released a composite sketch of the suspect, who appears to be Nilo at the time.
“The newly indicted attacks occurred during the time Nilo was living in the North End and during the same period as the attacks on women in Charlestown, for which Nilo has already been charged,” the Suffolk County District Attorney said in a statement announcing the new charges. against Nilo Tuesday.
The incidents followed a similar pattern. The victims were attacked while walking alone, in the dark, at night or early in the morning.’
District Attorney Kevin Hayden said more information about the new charges will be released when Nilo is indicted next month.
“But I can tell you that DNA evidence played a role in these new charges,” he told the Boston sphere.
Nilo, pictured entering court on June 5, has pleaded not guilty to charges related to the Charlestown rapes
Nilo was released from a Boston jail on June 15 when his fiancé, Laura Griffin, center, posted $500,000 of his bail
Nilo is 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 from the luxury harborfront apartment he shared with his fiancé, Laura Griffin, claiming a package had been delivered that was too large to fit in the posh fit facility. lockers.
Law enforcement officials claim to have linked Nilo to the four Charlestown attacks with DNA evidence identified through the genealogy database 23 and Me, to which family members voluntarily provided 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 reached out last October.
In April, according to FBI Special Agent Joseph R Bonavolonta, Nilo had been identified as a suspect.
He then waived his extradition to Massachusetts and was charged with the Charlestown rapes, in which prosecutors say Nilo picked up downtown women and took them to Terminal Street, where he allegedly assaulted them.
Speaking to DailyMail.com outside a Boston courtroom, alleged victim Lori called Nilo “a very bad person and he used guns and force to forcibly kidnap and rape multiple women”
Nilo’s first alleged victim Lori Pinkham spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com and shared her ordeal publicly.
Pinkham admitted she had lost hope that her attacker would ever be caught and said she was “in disbelief and awe” when police arrived at her home and told her they had identified him.
She said, “He is a very bad person and he used guns and violence to violently kidnap and rape several women.”
Pinkham could not go into details of her own attack, she said, but is willing to testify against Nilo if prosecutors are called to do so.
Meanwhile, Nilo’s attorney says he intends to challenge the constitutionality of the evidence gathered by police and federal authorities 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 took place
Nilo was released from a Boston jail on June 15 after Griffin posted $500,000 for his bail.
He was given a GPS tracker and released on the condition that he surrender his passport, have no contact with the victims or witnesses, and stay at least 300 meters from Terminal Street.
Exclusive photos and videos from DailyMail.com show Nilo walking out of the courthouse with his Griffin, holding his hand tight the entire time.
But there may be more charges to come as police in Madison, Wisconsin — where Nilo went to college — look back at their past cases to see if there’s any connection to the suspect.
“Our detectives are aware of Matthew Nilo,” police said in a statement to WCVB.
“We’re working with the Boston Police Department [and] looking at old cases to see if there’s a connection.’