The founder of the Queens Defenders and her husband have lawyered up after they were indicted by a federal grand jury for ...

Lori Zeno and her ex-con boyfriend, Rashad Ruhani, 55, were indicted last week on charges they stole some $60,000 for ...

A public defender with a Queens nonprofit mired in controversy was hauled off in handcuffs after he was caught smuggling 130 ...

Former Queens Defenders Executive Director and founder Lori Zeno appeared in court in Brooklyn on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to fraud charges. Zeno, who was ousted from the Queens nonprofit ...

Bernardo Caceres was at New York City’s jail complex to meet with a client when an envelope he had drew the attention of a ...

Queens Defenders received roughly $368,000 in federal funds via the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development. The couple is charged with theft of federal funds and wire fraud.

One of the staff lawyers at Queens Defenders was arrested for allegedly attempting to sneak more than 130 pages of paper laced with THC to an inmate during a scheduled attorney visit at Rikers Island.

A founder of the Queens Defenders, a public defender office in New York City, has been charged with diverting tens of thousands of dollars from the organization and using it for personal expenses ...

Since 1996, Queens Defenders has provided legal services for low-income New Yorkers in the borough. Zeno was a founder of the organization and served as its executive director until this past January.

Queens County Supreme Court on Sutphin Blvd in Jamaica, Queens. Photo: CaptJayRuffins via Wikimedia Commons Brooklyn Defender Services will be taking over the contract previously held by Queens ...