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

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 charged ...

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 ...

Now she’s the defendant! The recently ousted founder of the Queens Defenders legal aid group stole at least $60,000 from her ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Appellate service providers rallied outside City Hall on Wednesday demanding the city fund their office and bring a wage ...

Several days after the Queens Defenders’ founder and executive director was forced to go on leave by the organization’s board of directors, the public defense group has a new interim leader.