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, ...

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

Although Queens Defenders’ former executive director, Lori Zeno, had not been charged with fraud at the time, she was booted from the organization by Queens Defenders’ board of directors after ...

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

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.

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 for ...

Lori Zeno and her partner and former employee, Rashad Ruhani, stole at least $60,000 from the organization between June 2024 and January 2025, according to an indictment from the U.S. Attorney’s ...

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 ...

Lori Zeno, deputy director at the for-profit, city-sponsored Queens Law Associates, had no insurance card and a blood-alcohol content of .13 percent when cops found her sloshed and asleep behind ...

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, source… ...