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

Lori Zeno (center), the former executive director of Queens Defenders, was arraigned on fraud charges Wednesday after prosecutors said she stole tens of thousands of dollars from the organization ...

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 on ...

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

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 ...

Lori Zeno and her husband are accused of spending at least $60,000 of the organization's funding on personal expenses. Law.com Products & Resources.

Lori Zeno, of Garden City, holds a campaign sign as she waits for New York mayor-elect Bill de Blasio to arrive Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. Chad Rachman/New York Post.

Prosecutors say Lori Zeno and Rashad Ruhani took tens of thousands of dollars that were supposed to support low-income New Yorkers in court.

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 ...

Caceres’ arrest came the same day that founder and former executive director of Queens Defenders, Lori Zeno, and her boyfriend and youth program director Rashad Ruhani, were indicted in Brooklyn ...

Brooklyn Defender Services has taken over Queens Defenders and its $32M contract after its former director was charged in a fraud case.