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

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 ...

Former Queens Defenders chief Lori Zeno pleaded not guilty to fraud after allegedly misusing nonprofit funds for luxury expenses.

The government did not seek to detain Lori Zeno, who presented a $500,000 bond package secured by her son, older sister and brother-in-law.

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

The change follows a period of disarray at Queens Defenders during which the organization’s founder and executive director, Lori Zeno, became a defendant herself.

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

Zeno is survived by 3 children: Terry (Dave) Sieloff, Larry (Lori) Micolichek and Jerry Micolichek; 12 grandchildren: Heidi, Tim, Jenny, Tami, Stacy, Betty Jo, Billy, April, Jeremiah, Katie ...

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

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 ...

Its founder, Lori Zeno and another lawyer at the group, Rashad Ruhani, who is her husband, were charged in federal court Wednesday. The couple stole at least $60,000 from the organization and used ...

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