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 ...

They bought an 85-inch television for $3,300, paid for a $2,600 steak dinner, and got their teeth whitened for $600, the feds allege. Zeno used a Queens Defenders credit card to pay for a December ...

Queens Defenders Executive Director Lori Zeno, center, addresses the media outside the Queens courthouse on Thursday, June 25, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).

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

Queens Defenders Executive Director Lori Zeno, center, with attorney Sanford Rubenstein and Rev. Kevin McCall, addresses the media outside the Queens courthouse following with the arraignment of ...

Queens Defenders Executive Director Lori Zeno, center, with attorney Sanford Rubenstein and Rev. Kevin McCall, addresses the media outside the Queens courthouse following with the arraignment of ...

Queens Defenders officially had its criminal defense practice taken over by a Brooklyn-based legal services provider on ...

A six-count indictment filed by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York charged Queens Defenders founder Lori Zeno, 64, and her husband, Rashad Ruhani, 55, with wire fraud, wire ...

“As a result of information received by the Board of Queens Defenders, Lori Zeno has been placed on leave effective immediately and is not allowed on any Queens Defenders property,” Powell ...

Lori Zeno, who helped start the Queens Defenders, and her husband were accused of taking money from the organization for luxury vacations and a penthouse apartment. By Santul Nerkar A founder of ...

Lori Zeno, the executive director and founder of Queens Defenders, a major nonprofit which represent indigent defendants, was placed on forced leave Friday morning and her husband was fired ...