Lori Zeno (center), the former executive director of Queens Defenders, was arraigned on fraud charges Wednesday after prosecutors said she stole tens of thousands of dollars from the organization ...

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

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

According to prosecutors, Zeno and her husband stole at least $60,000 from Queens Defenders and spent the money on a vacation to Bali, expensive meals, an 85-inch smart TV, luxury clothing and ...

Lori Zeno, of Garden City, holds a campaign sign as she waits for New York mayor-elect Bill de Blasio to arrive Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. Chad Rachman/New York Post.

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 ...

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 ...

The public defender nonprofit Queens Defenders fired two pro-union employees on Monday, less than two months after staff launched a union drive, the Queens Daily Eagle and New York Focus report.