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 ...

There’s more trouble brewing for an embattled Queens public defender office, as a lawyer there was busted for passing drugs to an incarcerated client just days after the group’s founder was charged ...

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 ...

The government did not seek to detain Lori Zeno, who presented a $500,000 bond package secured by her son, older sister and ...

Lori Zeno, who helped start the Queens Defenders, and her husband were accused of taking money from the organization for ...

Now she’s the defendant! The recently ousted founder of the Queens Defenders legal aid group stole at least $60,000 from her ...

The defendant and her husband spent thousands on meals, luxury shopping, a vacation in Bali and rent for a penthouse, prosecutors said.

The founder of a top New York City public defender organization spent money meant for indigent legal defense on foreign travel, pricey real-estate, and high-end clothing, a New York federal prosecutor ...

NEW YORK — A public defender with a Queens nonprofit mired in controversy was hauled off in handcuffs after he was caught smuggling 130 sheets of suspected THC-soaked paper into a jail on Rikers ...

Queens Defenders did not respond to repeated emails on Friday. Two other employees of the nonprofit, Teyana Reyes and Ureka Washington, were also fired, the sources said.

Several days after the Queens Defenders’ founder and executive director was forced to go on leave by the organization’s board of directors, the public defense group has a new interim leader.