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NJ attorney pleads not guilty to raping four women while a student in Boston 15 years ago after offering each a ride – Cops allege geneolgy DNA linked Matthew Nilo to decades old assaults

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261b1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>NJ attorney&&num;8217&semi;s fiancée clutches rosary beads as she watches him plead not guilty to raping four women while a student in Boston 15 years ago after offering them a ride<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261b1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Matthew Nilo&comma; is charged with three counts of aggravated rape&comma; two counts of kidnapping&comma; one count of assault with the intent to rape and one count of indecent assault and battery&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261b1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The 35-yea-rold cyber counsel&comma; denied attacking four different women during his appearance in Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusettson Monday <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261b1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He was arrested by FBI officers last week Tusesday&comma; after they lured him out of his luxury apartment in Weehawken&comma; NJ <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261b1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Between August 2007 and December 2008&comma; Nillo is accuded of assulting four women&comma; two aged 23&comma; others aged 36 and 40&comma; in or around Terminal Street in Charleston Massachusetts&comma;<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261b1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>His <strong>fian<&sol;strong>cée&comma; Lauren Griffin&comma; who was present at the arrest&comma; clutched aher rosary as she attended his hearing along with other family members <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;261b1e&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He was held on &dollar;500&comma;000 bond and will be released&comma; wearing an electronc ankle monoto&comma;r if he posts bail  <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;Danny-Nilo-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-442045" width&equals;"835" height&equals;"568"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Caught a decade and half after alleged crime wave&comma; Matthew Nilo&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; has denied charges that he attacked four different women15 years ago in Massachussets during his appearance in Suffolk Superior Court this morning<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A New Jersey attorney accused of multiple counts of sexual assault and kidnap&comma; Monday&comma; pled not guilty to raping four women as a college student in 2007 and 2008&period;<br>Making his court appearance&comma; an emotional Matthew Nilo&comma; 35&comma; who was dressed in a blue shirt and jeans and looked emotional at Suffolk Superior Court Monday morning where he was charged with three counts of aggravated rape&comma; two counts of kidnapping&comma; one count of assault with the intent to rape and one count of indecent assault and battery&period;<br>Nilo who was in handcuffs has been linked to the alleged crime spree from 15 years ago by DNA evidence after investigators using genetic genealogy&comma; connected him to the string of assaults that happened in the Boston area during his undergraduate days&period;<br>In court to lend support were his family members and his fiancée&comma; Lauren Griffin&comma; who was present when FBI officers swooped at their home in Weehawken last week&period;<br>Griffin&comma; 37&comma;  stayed silent and emotionless during the entire hearing on Monday&comma; clutching a rosary&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;Lauren-Griffin-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-442049" width&equals;"844" height&equals;"1271"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Nilo&&num;8217&semi;s fiancée&comma; Lauren Griffin&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; was observed staring emotionless during the entire hearing&comma; clutching a rosary <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">His bail was posted at &dollar;500&comma;000&comma; and if Nilo is able to post that amount&comma; he must submit to GPS monitoring and stay away from his alleged victims and the scene of the crime&period;<br>At the time of the alleged rapes&comma; Boston Police Department issued a warning that a man was attacking women after offering them rides home&period;<br>Nilo was identified to law enforcement through family members who voluntarily sent DNA samples to a genealogy database&comma; like &&num;8217&semi;23 and Me&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;Danny-Nilo-right-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-442044" width&equals;"847" height&equals;"551"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Nilo &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; was handcuffed and appeared in court wearing a blue shirt and jeans and looked emotional as he entered his not guilty plea to multiple counts of sexual assault&comma; kidnap and battery<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">According to a police affidavit&comma; a dozen FBI agents and Boston Police officers arrested Nilo at his luxury apartment complex in Weehawken&comma; NJ&comma; on Tuesday&period;<br>Law enforcement lured the suspect down to the lobby under the pretense that &&num;8216&semi;a large package had been delivered to him that did not fit in the … lockers where the residents pick up packages&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>He was with his fiance at the time of his arrest&comma; and immediately invoked his Miranda rights&period;<br>Griffin also attended Nilo&&num;8217&semi;s court hearing in New Jersey last week&comma; where he waived extradition&period;<br>Nilo is accused of assaulting the four women in or around Terminal Street in Charleston Massachusetts&comma; on 18 August 2007&comma; 22 November 2007&comma; 5 August 2008 and 23 December 2008&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;Lauren-Griffin-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-442050" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"1245"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Family and loved ones were in court Monday to support Nilo including&comma;his fiancée Lauren Griffin&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; who was present when FBI officers swooped at their New Jersey home <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A 23-year-old woman allrges that she was approached by a man in his 20&&num;8217&semi;s after leaving a friend&&num;8217&semi;s home in the State Street area in the early hours&period;<br>She said she thought she knew the man&comma; who offered her a ride to help her look for her vehicle before driving her to Terminal Street&period; <br>Nilo then allegedly told her to &&num;8216&semi;shut up&&num;8217&semi; or he would kill her&comma; claiming to have a weapon before raping her on a grassy area near railroad tracks&comma; according to court filings&period;<br>The second attack took place in November 2007&comma; when a woman&comma; 23&comma; was leaving a bar on State Street after attending a high school reunion&period;<br>Documents say that she got into Nilo&&num;8217&semi;s car&comma; thinking it was a taxi&comma; before giving him the address of an ATM near her apartment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;05&sol;Matthew-Nilo-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-441747" width&equals;"628" height&equals;"995"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Nilo &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; has been <strong>suspended<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <strong>from his job as as a cyber attorney by his employer Cowbell in light of the investigations into his<strong> links to the crimes<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">She claims that the man flashed a knife at her after she told him he missed the address&comma; driving her to Terminal Street where he ordered her out of the car before raping her&period;<br>The third assault took place in August 2008&comma; after Nilo allegedly approached a 36-year-old woman on Boston Common&comma; promising her money if she went to Charlestown with him&period;<br>When they exited the car at Terminal Street&comma; he allegedly &&num;8216&semi;tackled her to the ground&comma; held a gun to her back&&num;8217&semi; and raped her repeatedly&period; <br>Prosecutors said that all three women underwent a sexual assault examination&comma; which yielded a DNA profile&comma; which matched the male in each attack&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;Lauren-Griffin-left-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-442054" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"545"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Family and friends&comma; including Griffin &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; shoewd in court to support Nilo who is accused of assaulting the four women in or around Terminal Street in Charleston on 18 August&comma; 2007 22 November 2007&comma; 5 August 2008 and 23 December 2008&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;image-9&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-442062" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"510"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Prosecutors said that all three women underwent a sexual assault examination&comma; which yielded a DNA profile&comma; which matched the male in each attack&period;<&sol;strong> <strong>Police revisited the investigation last year&comma; using &&num;8216&semi;forensic investigative genetic genealogy&&num;8217&semi; which resulted in Nilo being placed under surveillance in New York <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The final assault took place in December 2008&comma; where a 44-year-old woman was attacked as she was jogging in the area of Terminal Street&period;<br>Court documents claim that he approached her from behind&comma; tackled her to the ground and sexually assaulted her&period;<br>The man&comma; who was later allegedly identified as Nilo&comma; repeatedly told her &&num;8216&semi;I have a gun&&num;8217&semi; before she managed to escape by poking at his eyes while wearing a glove&period;<br>Police revisited the investigation last year&comma; using &&num;8216&semi;forensic investigative genetic genealogy&&num;8217&semi; which resulted in Nilo being placed under surveillance in New York&period;<br>The cout documents state that&colon; &&num;8216&semi;FBI agents were able to obtain various utensils and drinking glasses they watched the defendant use at a corporate event&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;From one of the glasses the Boston Police Crime Lab obtained a male DNA profile&comma; which was found to match the suspect profile from the three Terminal Street rapes&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>The glove that the fourth woman used to poke her attacker with was also tested&comma; with investigators &&num;8216&semi;determining that this profile was 314 times more likely to belong to Matthew Nilo than to any other male in the population&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;05&sol;Matthew-Nilo-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-441750" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"817"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>New Jersey based cyber crimes attornry&comma; Mathew Nilo&comma; who once lived in Boston&&num;8217&semi;s North End&comma; was arrested at his home in Weehawken&comma; New Jersey&comma; on Tuesday&comma; more than 15 years after he allegedly assaulted four victims in the Terminal Street area <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Nilo&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer Joseph Cataldo claimed that he has received &&num;8216&semi;no indication&&num;8217&semi; that a search warrant was obtained before they collected Nilo&&num;8217&semi;s DNA samples&period;<br>Speaking outside court&comma; he said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;My educated guess is there are no search warrants&period; Obtaining DNA and analyzing it without a warrant based on probable cause&comma; I posit that is unconstitutional&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Nilo grew up in Boston and attended Boston Latin School&comma; before graduating in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin Madison where he studied psychology&period; He went ton to earn a law degree at the University of San Francisco in 2015&period;<br>&period;At the time of his arrest&comma; Nilo was working as cyber claims counsel for Cowbell Cyber&period;Cowbell Cyber suspended Nilo when they learned of the charges&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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