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 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.

Photo: Kevin Hagen/AP The former head of Queens Defenders pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges on Wednesday and was released on a $500,000 secured bond.

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 Executive Director Lori Zeno did not respond to requests for comment, and the organization said it did not comment on internal human relations matters. Early last month, Zeno referred ...

Prosecutors said Wednesday they are declining to prosecute Bernardo Caceres, 30, a lawyer with Queens Defenders, who was very publicly arrested June 13 at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center.

Thomas Montella of Queens Defenders, Sanson's lawyer, said at Sanson's arraignment Thursday this was, "at the end of the day, a gun case," the New York Post reported.

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 ...