A lawyer representing several civilian witnesses who testified against Karen Read during her criminal trials blasted her effort to join them to a wrongful death lawsuit she faces from the family of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, as the latest in a “scheme to defame and wrongly malign” them.

The witnesses — Jennifer McCabe, Matthew McCabe, Brian Albert, Nicole Albert and Brian Higgins — were all present at 34 Fairview Road in Canton on Jan. 29, 2022, the night O’Keefe died. The Alberts owned the home at the time.

O’Keefe was found in a snow bank on the front lawn on the morning of the 29th, hours after Read dropped him off there following a night of heavy drinking. She was accused by authorities of backing her SUV into O’Keefe and killing him, but her lawyers claimed the McCabes, Albert

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