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

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

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

Timmins said that when no one else stepped forward, he chose to "bring the action," faulting the incumbent's performance on ...

Former Queens Defenders executive director Lori Zeno, 64, surrendered Wednesday at the Brooklyn federal courthouse. Zeno was ...

Lori Zeno and her ex-con boyfriend, Rashad Ruhani, 55, were indicted last week on charges they stole some $60,000 for personal expenses, using their organization’s accounts to pay the rent ...

Former Queens Defenders Executive Director and founder Lori Zeno appeared in court in Brooklyn on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to fraud charges.

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 charged ...

A public defender with a Queens nonprofit mired in controversy was hauled off in handcuffs after he was caught smuggling 130 sheets of suspected THC-soaked paper into a jail on Rikers Island, ...

Who’s up and who’s down this week?