A lawyer for a New Jersey man charged with rapes that occurred more than a decade ago in Boston accused prosecutors on Thursday of conspiring with federal authorities to keep information about a key DNA search out of the defense’s hands.
Attorney Rosemary Scapicchio made the claim during an at-times contentious discovery hearing in Suffolk Superior Court Thursday morning in the case of Matthew Nilo, a former lawyer accused of sexually assaulting women in Charlestown and the North End in the 2000s.
Investigators linked Nilo to the assaults through a sample of his DNA taken by the FBI from a drinking glass and utensils he used at a corporate event in New York City…