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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...