A public defender with a Queens nonprofit mired in controversy was hauled off in handcuffs after he was caught smuggling 130 ...

Queens Defenders’ disgraced founder and her formerly incarcerated boyfriend fleeced the nonprofit, which represents indigent ...

Lori Zeno, who helped start the Queens Defenders, and her husband were accused of taking money from the organization for ...

Bernardo Caceres was at New York City’s jail complex to meet with a client when an envelope he had drew the attention of a ...

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 former longtime head of the Queens Defenders stole tens of thousands of dollars from the indigent defense fund through use of corporate cards and by masking payments for a penthouse apartment ...

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 ...

Group founder Lori Zeno and fellow defender Rashad Ruhani illegally claimed tens of thousands in personal spending as business expenses.

The defendant and her husband spent thousands on meals, luxury shopping, a vacation in Bali and rent for a penthouse, prosecutors said.

The founder of a top New York City public defender organization spent money meant for indigent legal defense on foreign travel, pricey real-estate, and high-end clothing, a New York federal prosecutor ...