Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Arthur Aidala | Defense Attorney Unpacks the Legal Headlines Dominating the News
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Artie Aydala, that's a great defense attorney, dear, dear friend
- 0:03Speaker 1: of mine. Arthur, good morning, buddy.
- 0:04Speaker 2: How are you?
- 0:05Speaker 3: What's going on? Let me tell you something.
- 0:08Speaker 4: Selfishly, besides being.
- 0:10Speaker 3: So thrilled with how well you're doing, and I'm going
- 0:14Speaker 3: out with a bunch of poly prep guys tonight, like
- 0:16Speaker 3: the rich, smart Jewish ones. You didn't fall into that category.
- 0:21Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Either way, by the way, the rich part or the
- 0:25Speaker 3: smart part. My point is, I don't know who they're
- 0:27Speaker 3: more shocked about having done well 40.
- 0:30Speaker 4: Some odd years later. You, me, or Takapina.
- 0:32Speaker 5: I know, all 30 of us.
- 0:34Speaker 4: We were not exactly the shining.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Stars of the classes of 84 and 85.
- 0:39Speaker 1: No, we were not.
- 0:40Speaker 3: What I'm so happy about is that you are keeping
- 0:46Speaker 3: AM radio so relevant. And that's really an issue because,
- 0:50Speaker 3: you know, these cars now, they're trying to make these
- 0:52Speaker 3: cars without, you know, without AM radio. And the power
- 0:57Speaker 3: that you're wielding is basically on John's station.
- 1:00Speaker 4: And it is keeping AM radio so relevant.
- 1:02Speaker 3: And to me as a consumer, and obviously, you know,
- 1:05Speaker 3: I have my own show on another station. It's just great.
- 1:09Speaker 3: I mean, I'm still driving. I'm shocked to hear my
- 1:12Speaker 3: friend Sid Rosenberg go, yeah, me and the vice president
- 1:15Speaker 3: of the United States, we're going to have a little face-to-face.
- 1:17Speaker 2: Oh, we are.
- 1:18Speaker 3: And we're going to straighten things out.
- 1:19Speaker 2: I'm like, holy.
- 1:20Speaker 4: I look fresh.
- 1:22Speaker 1: And just so you know, Arthur, that's not going to
- 1:24Speaker 1: be me calling that meeting. That'll be him. Just trust me.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Just trust me.
- 1:27Speaker 3: Bro, listen to me. I got you. I am in
- 1:30Speaker 3: my car driving east to go have a little lunch
- 1:33Speaker 3: with our friend Bill O'Reilly.
- 1:34Speaker 2: So I'm excited to spend a.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Little quality time with the legend Bill O'Reilly.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Two legends.
- 1:40Speaker 3: And... No, no, no. He's the man.
- 1:43Speaker 4: You know, I want to just touch on something real quick.
- 1:45Speaker 2: You talked about.
- 1:47Speaker 3: Earlier about Tish James, when you had the congressman on,
- 1:49Speaker 3: who's just fantastic, Peter King. You know, there's this whole
- 1:52Speaker 3: thing about her going and targeting Trump, right? Someone in
- 1:56Speaker 3: Tish James's administration came out and said, you know, we
- 1:59Speaker 3: were basically told, like, find something on this guy, which
- 2:03Speaker 3: is exactly not how the system is supposed to work
- 2:07Speaker 3: in any way, shape or form. decades ago, Justice Scalia
- 2:10Speaker 3: said he hated the special prosecutor role because basically a
- 2:14Speaker 3: special prosecutor is like, you focus on this guy and figure.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Out what he's done wrong.
- 2:19Speaker 5: And then didn't we just see that? Didn't we just
- 2:21Speaker 5: see that, the epitome of that a couple years ago
- 2:23Speaker 5: with Jack Smith?
- 2:24Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
- 2:25Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened.
- 2:27Speaker 3: And you know, but hitting a little closer to home
- 2:29Speaker 3: to you and I, that's basically what they've done to
- 2:32Speaker 3: your friend Anthony Carone and my friend Frank Carone.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Yep.
- 2:35Speaker 4: Three years ago, they were.
- 2:37Speaker 3: Like, You know what? This Caron guy and this Eric
- 2:40Speaker 3: Adams guy, they're breaking our shoes about the migrants and
- 2:42Speaker 3: they're embarrassing us and they're making us look bad. And
- 2:45Speaker 3: let's start investigating them. And three years after looking into them,
- 2:50Speaker 3: they come up.
- 2:51Speaker 4: With this cockamamie issue that's total BS.
- 2:54Speaker 3: And Sid, my point is, if that's the direction that
- 2:58Speaker 3: our legal system is going in, is that we're going
- 3:00Speaker 3: to find targets and then spend years and then spend
- 3:03Speaker 3: years trying to concoct some BS story to go after them.
- 3:08Speaker 3: We're in huge trouble, like huge trouble.
- 3:12Speaker 4: You know, the cases that you want.
- 3:14Speaker 3: To talk to me about, those are clear-cut cases, and
- 3:16Speaker 3: prosecutors are doing a great job. You know, whether it's
- 3:19Speaker 3: the Charlie Kirk tragedy execution, which is horrible. The judge said, oh,
- 3:25Speaker 3: there's enough evidence to go forward. Yeah, of course there's
- 3:27Speaker 3: enough evidence to go forward. They have video evidence. They
- 3:29Speaker 3: have DNA evidence. They have a confession. So that's going
- 3:33Speaker 3: to go forward. The issue there is very simple. Does
- 3:35Speaker 3: he get the death penalty, or does he get life
- 3:37Speaker 3: in prison? You and I may differ on what's the
- 3:40Speaker 3: more severe punishment. I think if you're that young and
- 3:45Speaker 3: they're just going to put you on a gurney and
- 3:46Speaker 3: put a needle in your arm and you die, and
- 3:48Speaker 3: that's a lot better punishment than you're going to sit
- 3:51Speaker 3: in a cage for the next 40 years and just rot. That's,
- 3:56Speaker 3: to me, I would rather kill myself. The woman out
- 4:00Speaker 3: in Massachusetts who killed the three kids is I know
- 4:03Speaker 3: everyone's intrigued by that trial. Is she guilty of murder
- 4:07Speaker 3: or is she not guilty by reason, not responsible by.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Mental disease or defect?
- 4:13Speaker 3: Sid, the difference is so minimal. This is a paraplegic
- 4:16Speaker 3: woman who's in a wheelchair. So she's either going to
- 4:19Speaker 3: be in one hospital for the rest of her life
- 4:21Speaker 3: or another hospital for the rest of her life. Both
- 4:24Speaker 3: hospitals are going to have bars. Neither hospital are going
- 4:27Speaker 3: to be luxurious. She's not going to NYU Medical Center
- 4:30Speaker 3: or Cornell Weill or Columbia Presbyterian.
- 4:33Speaker 4: She's going to go to a mental institution.
- 4:34Speaker 3: Where she's going to be locked in. So, you know,
- 4:37Speaker 3: it's a matter of degree. OK, is it is which
- 4:40Speaker 3: way is she spending the rest of her life? Obviously,
- 4:43Speaker 3: your idea of effort mind.
- 4:44Speaker 4: If you kill your three kids.
- 4:46Speaker 3: With an exercise band and then dive out the window
- 4:49Speaker 3: on your head and become a paraplegic.
- 4:52Speaker 4: So there's no issue there.
- 4:53Speaker 3: And our boy, Tiger Woods, is going in today and saying, yeah, Judge,
- 4:56Speaker 3: I was a little under the weather when I flipped
- 5:00Speaker 3: over my car. And I'm withdrawing my plea of not guilty.
- 5:03Speaker 3: I'm entering my plea of guilty. And look, Tigers, for
- 5:06Speaker 3: a guy who's great, great, great, he's definitely got some struggles.
- 5:11Speaker 3: And that's what makes me admire people like Derek Jeter
- 5:16Speaker 3: and people like Mariano Rivera, because as great as they were,
- 5:20Speaker 3: they never really had any hiccups. You know, they, they
- 5:22Speaker 3: kind of, you know, just did it on the straight
- 5:25Speaker 3: and narrow. And, uh, You know, it's not that easy
- 5:29Speaker 3: to do when you become that rich and that famous
- 5:31Speaker 3: at a young age. Look, we're both very close with
- 5:33Speaker 3: Lawrence Taylor. I'm going to the game with him on
- 5:35Speaker 3: September 13th. You know, you hand a 22-year-old kid, you know,
- 5:39Speaker 3: a million dollars in 1981. What do you think he's.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Going to do?
- 5:44Speaker 4: You know, he's going to go crazy.
- 5:45Speaker 2: He's going to lose his mind.
- 5:47Speaker 4: So that's what's going on in the world of the law.
- 5:50Speaker 4: I prefer Marco.
- 5:51Speaker 3: Rubio over Mr.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Vance.
- 5:54Speaker 3: I think Rubio would definitely win because he's going to
- 5:57Speaker 3: appeal to the swing voters much more than Mr.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Vance will.
- 6:01Speaker 5: He's getting killed in every poll every week, Rubio. Vance
- 6:04Speaker 5: is beating him easily. Vance, for some reason, is very,
- 6:06Speaker 5: very hot with the young people.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Very, very hot.
- 6:09Speaker 3: I mean, it's two years away.
- 6:10Speaker 1: I know.
- 6:12Speaker 5: But the numbers that I'm seeing now, and nobody likes
- 6:14Speaker 5: Marco more than me. say that J.D. Vance would win that.
- 6:17Speaker 5: But I'm with you. I think Rubio's the better choice.
- 6:20Speaker 5: I do want to get back, though, to you mentioned
- 6:22Speaker 5: the Caron brothers. And you mentioned the three big cases today.
- 6:25Speaker 5: You just did a great job. Great job in three
- 6:27Speaker 5: minutes of breaking them all down. Clancy, Tiger Woods and
- 6:30Speaker 5: Tyler Robinson. You know, listen, I spoke to a few
- 6:33Speaker 5: other attorneys about the Caron case. The problem is they're
- 6:36Speaker 5: all friends of mine. And most of them are friends
- 6:39Speaker 5: with either Frank and Anthony or both. So they all say, ah,
- 6:42Speaker 5: crappy case, they're going to be okay. I need your.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Real lawyer's opinion. Our friends, are they going to be okay?
- 6:51Speaker 4: Well, my real lawyer's opinion is let's just look at this.
- 6:55Speaker 4: Let's look at it statistically.
- 6:56Speaker 3: You know, the conviction rate in all federal courts is
- 7:02Speaker 3: in the 90 percent pile. Right.
- 7:03Speaker 2: So that's that. We can just start with that.
- 7:06Speaker 4: Secondly, you know, I am I do have a notice
- 7:08Speaker 4: appearance in on Frank Carone's case. But I look, I
- 7:11Speaker 4: could be objective.
- 7:13Speaker 3: The indictment is what we would call a Frankenstein indictment.
- 7:17Speaker 3: What they're doing, Sid, is they're taking these text messages
- 7:22Speaker 3: and they're putting them together with times that certain phone
- 7:25Speaker 3: calls were made.
- 7:26Speaker 2: And I'm not making this up.
- 7:27Speaker 3: And when Chinese food was delivered.
- 7:29Speaker 4: To somebody's house.
- 7:31Speaker 2: I'm not joking.
- 7:31Speaker 3: I'm not making that up. That's like a part of
- 7:33Speaker 3: the whole thing. And they're trying to string that all
- 7:36Speaker 3: together and say that Frank Corona, it's no secret, who's
- 7:39Speaker 3: a very wealthy man, took a hundred and twenty thousand.
- 7:42Speaker 2: Dollar bribe to allow.
- 7:46Speaker 4: The co-defendant to have his hotel put into the migrant
- 7:49Speaker 4: system when there.
- 7:50Speaker 3: Was a memo sent out by Eric Adams. That said,
- 7:56Speaker 3: any place.
- 7:56Speaker 4: We could put these people, just to prove it.
- 7:59Speaker 3: I'm overriding all the normal requirements. I have thousands of
- 8:05Speaker 3: people with children coming.
- 8:06Speaker 4: In who are sleeping on benches, who are sleeping in parks.
- 8:10Speaker 2: I need to get them housing.
- 8:11Speaker 3: So it's taken three years, Sid, three years.
- 8:15Speaker 4: To go figure out something.
- 8:18Speaker 3: They spoke to everyone in the Coron's lives, including the priest.
- 8:22Speaker 3: I brought the priest in, the Monsignor in. They're questioning
- 8:25Speaker 3: the Monsignor. What about this donation? What about that thing?
- 8:28Speaker 4: And how come he gave you this money?
- 8:30Speaker 2: Why'd you give it?
- 8:31Speaker 3: I mean, it's just, it's so scary because, Sid, honestly,
- 8:35Speaker 3: I'm a target. You're a bigger target. I mean, there
- 8:39Speaker 3: before the grace of God go you. And, you know,
- 8:41Speaker 3: I mean, I know you, you know, you, you get
- 8:44Speaker 3: a regular check from.
- 8:45Speaker 4: John and there's not a lot of business going on.
- 8:47Speaker 3: In your world except causing trouble. Um, but you know,
- 8:50Speaker 3: if they look at you long enough and they try
- 8:52Speaker 3: to string things together for almost anyone, they could come
- 8:57Speaker 3: up with some theory.
- 8:59Speaker 2: Of course.
- 8:59Speaker 3: Like, like, okay, well, if you, if you put one
- 9:02Speaker 3: plus six plus nine, we're eventually going to get to
- 9:06Speaker 3: 16 and it looks like 16, but it's not really 16. Yeah.
- 9:09Speaker 3: So it's, and look, you know them, I know them,
- 9:12Speaker 3: they're regular guys, especially Anthony's a doll. He's just a.
- 9:17Speaker 2: Sweetheart of a guy.
- 9:18Speaker 3: They're family men. And this is all about $ 120, 000 thing
- 9:21Speaker 3: when you have two lawyers here who are very wealthy,
- 9:25Speaker 3: very prestigious, very well known, but there was a target
- 9:29Speaker 3: on their back. for three years until finally someone said,
- 9:33Speaker 3: all right, I think we got enough to go into
- 9:35Speaker 3: a grand jury. And look, they've assembled a great legal
- 9:37Speaker 3: team and they're going to.
- 9:39Speaker 2: Fight like hell.
- 9:40Speaker 3: And, you know, we'll see what the next steps are.
- 9:42Speaker 3: The trial set for May 3rd. And so we got
- 9:46Speaker 3: a little while to prep.
- 9:47Speaker 2: May 3rd.
- 9:47Speaker 4: I will tell you, I will tell you, Sid, it's
- 9:50Speaker 4: not a position any of us would.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Want to see.
- 9:51Speaker 5: No, no, of course not. Of course not. Of course not.
- 9:54Speaker 5: May 3rd is the trial. I got 60 seconds to go.
- 9:57Speaker 5: I bumped into Hassan's brother. Believe it or not.
- 10:01Speaker 4: Oh, he loves you.
- 10:01Speaker 1: I know.
- 10:02Speaker 2: All these pictures of you and him.
- 10:03Speaker 5: Oh, he's a great guy at the police academy. Trump
- 10:06Speaker 5: came to visit Blakeman and all of us in Nassau County.
- 10:08Speaker 5: He's a super guy and Of course, we both knew
- 10:11Speaker 5: his brother at Poly Prep.
- 10:12Speaker 1: You were much closer. You were really, really hurt.
- 10:15Speaker 2: When he was killed.
- 10:15Speaker 3: I'm wearing his name on my wrist. The only time
- 10:18Speaker 3: I ever thought of getting a tattoo was right after 9-11.
- 10:21Speaker 4: And luckily, Chris, who you met, he got these bracelets
- 10:25Speaker 4: made up.
- 10:26Speaker 3: And it just has Joe's name on it. It's got
- 10:28Speaker 3: the world traits.
- 10:29Speaker 4: And then just to show you what a BS artist
- 10:30Speaker 4: I am, I told everyone it's made from the metal
- 10:33Speaker 4: of the world.
- 10:36Speaker 2: I know.
- 10:36Speaker 1: I love it though.
- 10:37Speaker 4: It was part of the story.
- 10:39Speaker 3: I love it.
- 10:39Speaker 1: That's great. But on a serious, on a serious, we'll.
- 10:42Speaker 3: All be together in poly prep. We're having a golf
- 10:45Speaker 3: outing for Joe on September 10th at Diker. Then we're
- 10:48Speaker 3: going to walk over to Polly. You know, they never
- 10:50Speaker 3: found anything at Joe Hassan. So there's just a Polly
- 10:53Speaker 3: Prep headstone that has the 11 total people between parents
- 10:56Speaker 3: and former students' names there. And there'll be a celebration
- 11:00Speaker 3: of life there. And then on 9-11, with Vinny LaVienne,
- 11:04Speaker 3: who you know, IGG, will be down at ground zero
- 11:06Speaker 3: all day. And I'm sure you'll be standing next to
- 11:09Speaker 3: Mayor Mondani.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Yes, of course.
- 11:11Speaker 4: And you've got him.
- 11:13Speaker 2: I'm going to go with them.
- 11:15Speaker 4: I'm going to go with them.
- 11:16Speaker 5: Um, are there 11 members of the poly prep family
- 11:19Speaker 5: that were.
- 11:20Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- 11:21Speaker 4: I think it was two parents.
- 11:23Speaker 3: And, um, and then I think the rest of our
- 11:26Speaker 3: old students, the abate brothers, they lost twin brothers from
- 11:28Speaker 3: the class of 80. I remember that was, that was horrible.
- 11:31Speaker 3: And then Joe from 85 and his kids from, uh,
- 11:34Speaker 3: 95 and, um, Listen, dude, but Poly Prep did a
- 11:38Speaker 3: fantastic job helping us through that horrible, horrible period of time,
- 11:42Speaker 3: and they continue to do so.
- 11:44Speaker 2: So I give them hats.
- 11:45Speaker 3: They've kept that whole community together. They have scholarships in
- 11:48Speaker 3: the names of all 11 people, and they're going to
- 11:50Speaker 3: honor all those school years scholars. How could it be
- 11:53Speaker 3: 25 years? That is blowing my mind that it's that
- 11:58Speaker 3: long ago, and they've been gone.
- 11:59Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.
- 12:00Speaker 3: I had dinner with Joe.
- 12:02Speaker 4: The Saturday night before 9-11.
- 12:03Speaker 3: That Saturday, whatever that was, the 7th or the 8th?
- 12:06Speaker 4: I think it was the 8th.
- 12:08Speaker 3: And, you know, real quick, I'll tell you a quick story.
- 12:11Speaker 3: So he was having dinner at one table with a family.
- 12:14Speaker 4: I'm with my mother and father.
- 12:15Speaker 3: Towards the end of the night, we hung out. Towards
- 12:17Speaker 3: the end of the night, I called the waiter over,
- 12:18Speaker 3: and I go, do me a favor, buy that table
- 12:21Speaker 3: a drink on me, right?
- 12:22Speaker 2: I'm a 33-year-old big shot at the time.
- 12:24Speaker 4: The waiter comes over.
- 12:25Speaker 2: He goes, Mr.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Arthur, I have to tell you something. I go, yeah.
- 12:29Speaker 3: He goes, the man with missing the fingers, because Joe
- 12:31Speaker 3: had been in a car accident, he lost a couple.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Of his fingers. I go, yeah.
- 12:34Speaker 4: He goes, I told him you want to buy him
- 12:35Speaker 4: a drink. I said, okay.
- 12:37Speaker 2: And he goes.
- 12:38Speaker 3: We want to know what's the most expensive thing in
- 12:40Speaker 3: the house. So I told him, it's a cognac. It's
- 12:44Speaker 3: like 50 bucks.
- 12:45Speaker 2: I go, it's okay. You can do it.
- 12:46Speaker 3: And of course, Joe drank the cognac and came over
- 12:48Speaker 3: to apologize. I'm sorry, Arthur. That was an asshole move.
- 12:52Speaker 4: I should have done that.
- 12:53Speaker 2: It's all right, brother.
- 12:55Speaker 3: And I bought him his last drink on a Saturday night. Sunday,
- 12:58Speaker 3: I went to the Jet game. Monday, I worked until
- 13:01Speaker 3: 3 o'clock in the morning because Tuesday was election day
- 13:03Speaker 3: and I was working with my friend Dominic Recchia. And
- 13:05Speaker 3: then all hell broke loose.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Arthur, it's great to have you back there. That's an
- 13:09Speaker 1: excellent appearance.
- 13:10Speaker 3: I texted with Ava this morning. She finished with her pre...
- 13:14Speaker 3: I guess pre-thing studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
- 13:19Speaker 5: She had a final yesterday. She's coming home today, and
- 13:22Speaker 5: she starts on Monday. Yeah, she's doing great. Amazing kid, man.
- 13:26Speaker 3: Everyone misses her in the office. They were talking about
- 13:28Speaker 3: her yesterday. They're like, we miss her.
- 13:31Speaker 4: She was good, Sid. I'm not telling you that because.
- 13:32Speaker 3: We're on the radio, and you're my friend.
- 13:34Speaker 2: She was the real deal, man. Thank you. She's going
- 13:36Speaker 2: to be a great, great lawyer. She's a thinker. Thank you.
- 13:40Speaker 3: She thinks, realizes, and then writes it down. I mean,
- 13:44Speaker 3: that's for a young lady.
- 13:45Speaker 4: That's pretty impressive qualities to have.
- 13:48Speaker 5: No, listen, she loved working with you, and I'll always
- 13:52Speaker 5: thank you for that.
- 13:53Speaker 1: It was a great experience for Ava.
- 13:55Speaker 2: It was our pleasure.
- 13:56Speaker 4: We thank you for that, you.
- 13:57Speaker 2: And your bride.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Thank God she looks like your bride. Oh, my God.
- 14:01Speaker 2: I would never think she's your daughter, that's for sure.
- 14:03Speaker 3: Never.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Or my son, for that matter. Handsome kid, too. Artie,
- 14:06Speaker 1: I love you. Great job today. Thank you so much. Great,
- 14:08Speaker 1: great job. Nice to have you back. All right, buddy.
- 14:10Speaker 1: The great Arthur I. Dollar right there who.
- 14:12Speaker 5: Did employ my daughter this summer. And, of course, Bruce
- 14:14Speaker 5: Blakeman employed my son.
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