Arthur Aidala
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1,345 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 20 Aug
Arthur Aidala’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I need to send a message to the whole world that despite the fact you were a city councilman, you were a congressman, you passed all these bills, you filled all these potholes, you helped all these people, but you did something, you committed a crime.
So I'm acknowledging your greatness in the past.
I'm acknowledging the fact that I don't think you're going to do this again.
However,
By law, I have to address general deterrence and therefore I have to give you an incarceratory sentence.
I will give you less than probation wants.
I will give you less.
That's what I would say.
But if I were the prosecutor, I'd get up there and I'd say.
I'm very lucky here in New York.
I've gotten...
Look, sensing is such a huge part of the federal system nowadays, much more so than when my dad practiced.
When my dad practiced, you actually went to trial.
Nowadays, everyone plea bargains out because I don't want to get too deep into the weeds, but if you plea bargain and you don't make them go to trial, those guidelines automatically go down significantly.
You do get a benefit by not making them, putting them to the test.
So now you get into the guidelines and you get a probation, you get a probation recommendation, but then you got to go all out.
And I've been very fortunate to convince judges here in the Southern District of New York in this courthouse to give them below guideline sentences.
What Mark is saying, Megan, what Mark is saying is built in to the system.
If you do not accept responsibility prior to trial, you do not get what that's called that three point reduction, which sometimes that's years in prison.
And one judge in the Southern District of New York says that is unconstitutional.
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