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 ...

A New York City police officer seen on video putting a man in an apparent chokehold on a Queens boardwalk was arrested and charged Thursday. Officer David Afanador, who was suspended without pay ...

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.

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 ...

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NEW YORK — 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 ...