The top lawyer at a Queens public defender’s office is patient zero of a COVID-19 outbreak — sparking an ongoing conflict over her decision to keep colleagues in the dark about her diagnosis for three days, the Daily News has learned.
Lori Zeno, the embattled executive director of Queens Defenders, informed her office Sunday that a staff member had tested positive for COVID. It wasn’t until Tuesday that she admitted she was actually the infected staffer.
Head of Queens public defenders is patient zero of office’s COVID outbreak — but refused to identify herself to staff
