The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

The Queens public defender arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-laced papers to a Rikers Island inmate has been ...

Lori Zeno and her ex-con boyfriend, Rashad Ruhani, 55, were indicted last week on charges they stole some $60,000 for personal expenses, using their organization’s accounts to pay the rent ...

Many low-income criminal defendants in Queens who need a free attorney will now be represented by a public defender ...

The founder of the Queens Defenders and her husband have lawyered up after they were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the non-profit ...

The Correction Department said Bernardo Caceres’s papers tested positive for THC, a cannabinoid. Then officials tested the ...

Brooklyn Defender Services replaces Queens Defenders on a $34 million contract after its founders plead not guilty to fraud ...

The lawyers who represent the city’s poorest defendants want to be paid on par with their federal counterparts. They last ...

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 ...

Since 1996, Queens Defenders has provided legal services for low-income New Yorkers in the borough. Zeno was a founder of the organization and served as its executive director until this past January.

One of the staff lawyers at Queens Defenders was arrested for allegedly attempting to sneak more than 130 pages of paper laced with THC to an inmate during a scheduled attorney visit at Rikers Island.