Federal prosecutors say that since being cuffed last month, Rashad Ruhani, a one-time senior legal advocate at the legal ...

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 ...

Queens Defenders officially had its criminal defense practice taken over by a Brooklyn-based legal services provider on Tuesday, around three weeks after its former executive director was arrested ...

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 ...

BROOKLYN (CN) — Lori Zeno helped found the Queens Defenders two decades ago to provide legal services to people who can’t afford a lawyer. Over the past two years, prosecutors say she and her husband ...

A public defender with a Queens nonprofit mired in controversy was arrested for smuggling 130 sheets of suspected THC-soaked paper into a jail on Rikers Island, officials said Friday. Bernardo ...

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 ...

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.

The Queens Defenders, which represented Cu at his arraignment, declined to comment when reached, citing the ongoing case. Originally Published: April 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM EDT. Share this: ...

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 ...

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 ...