The co-founder and former executive director of Queens Defenders on Tuesday admitted in federal court to stealing over $100,000 from the taxpayer-funded nonprofit that provides legal defense services to New Yorkers who can’t otherwise afford it.
Read MoreA music media personality was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly hiding evidence in the ongoing fraud case against former Queens Defenders executive director Lori Zeno and her husband, Rashad Ruhani.
Read MoreA Texas man was charged in Queens with making terroristic threats after he allegedly made several menacing phone calls and wrote Islamophobic and exploitative-laced emails to Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, earlier this year.
Read MoreA former Queens doctor who raped at least eight women, some of whom came to him as patients, was sentenced to 24 years in prison at Queens Criminal Court on Thursday, angering a group of victims who say his sentence should keep him behind bars for life.
Read MoreLori Zeno, the former head of Queens Defenders, allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars from the organization she founded to fund luxury vacations, a teeth-whitening procedure and other personal expenses, prosecutors said this week.
Read MoreThe number of vehicle stop-and-searches committed by the NYPD skyrocketed last year – and the vast majority were conducted on Black and Latino drivers, newly released data shows.
Read MoreThe trial of a Far Rockaway man accused of attempting to shoot two NYPD police officers began on Monday.
Read MoreThe New York attorney general’s office last week released videos of a deadly police shooting outside a Queens precinct as an investigation into the shooting continues.
Read MoreTwo Queens police officers robbed and groped a woman working in an illegal brothel while they were on duty, prosecutors alleged on Monday.
Read More2025 started in horror for residents of Jamaica, as a mass shooting left 10 teenagers injured and the community reeling last week.
Read MoreOver thirty years after her dead body was discovered and her killers were brought to justice, Judy Rodriguez has officially been found.
Read MoreA former priest who was working as a religious teacher at St. Francis Preparatory High School in Fresh Meadows was recently fired after being accused of sexually abusing minors throughout the 1990s.
Read MoreA Brooklyn man was cuffed last week after he allegedly staged a car crash on a Queens street that was caught on a video that soon went viral.
Read MoreQueens’ Criminal Courthouse was packed with police officers last week as the trial for a 23-year-old accused of shooting a rookie cop in the leg last year began.
Read MoreA Chinese national was found guilty last week of murdering her former lawyer two years ago inside his Queens office.
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