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 ...

Lori Zeno, the disgraced founder of the Queens Defenders who’s accused of raiding the public defender nonprofit’s coffers to maintain a luxe lifestyle in a penthouse apartment, pleaded not ...

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 ...

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

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

Attorney Lori Zeno is pictured leaving a Queens courtroom in 2005. (Jesse Ward for New York Daily News) The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the city Department of Investigation.

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 ...

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 ...

Group founder Lori Zeno and fellow defender Rashad Ruhani illegally claimed tens of thousands in personal spending as business expenses and abused the company credit card, the probe by the FBI and ...

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 ...

Former Queens Defenders executive director Lori Zeno, 64, surrendered Wednesday at the Brooklyn federal courthouse. Zeno was arraigned on an indictment charging her and Rashad Ruhani, 55, with ...