The head of a legal services group that provides public defenders and other lawyers for the needy tried to induce a union ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many low-income criminal defendants in Queens who need a free attorney will now be represented by a public defender organization based in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Defender Services on Tuesday took over a ...

Queens Defenders Executive Director Lori Zeno, center, with attorney Sanford Rubenstein and Rev. Kevin McCall, addresses the media outside the Queens courthouse following with the arraignment of ...

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York as pictured in November 2022. (Nina Pullano/Courthouse News) BROOKLYN (CN) — Lori Zeno helped found the Queens Defenders two decades ago to ...

NEW YORK — The Bronx DA’s office has dropped the charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of alleged drug-soaked papers after lab tests showed there were no ...

The public defender nonprofit Queens Defenders fired two pro-union employees on Monday, less than two months after staff launched a union drive, the Queens Daily Eagle and New York Focus report.