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Former Queens Defenders chief Lori Zeno pleaded not guilty to fraud after allegedly misusing nonprofit funds for luxury expenses.
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 ...
Prosecutors say Lori Zeno used Defender funds to pay for a personal penthouse apartment, in which she claimed to be housing a homeless child.
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 ...
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) ...
Zeno helped found the nonprofit Queens Defenders in 1996, according to the court papers, and served as its executive director from 2018 until early this year.
Lori Zeno and her husband are accused of spending at least $60,000 of the organization's funding on personal expenses.
Group founder Lori Zeno and fellow defender Rashad Ruhani illegally claimed tens of thousands in personal spending as business expenses.
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 ...
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