Trump considering politically connected NYC lawyer Arthur Aidala for Brooklyn U.S. attorney

Arthur Aidala, a politically-connected lawyer with a roster of high-profile clients that includes Rudy Giuliani and a apical advisor to Mayor Adams, is nether information by President-elect Donald Trump’s modulation team to go the adjacent U.S. lawyer successful Brooklyn, the Daily News has learned.

According to 3 sources acquainted with the discussions, members of the national judiciary and others person successful caller backstage conversations with Trump’s squad floated Aidala’s sanction for the salient authoritative post, presently occupied by Breon Peace, who was tapped for it by President Biden successful 2021.

Trump considered Aidala for the Brooklyn U.S. lawyer job astatine the outset of his archetypal word successful the White House, too, but yet nominated Richard Donoghue instead.

It wasn’t instantly wide who Trump’s squad is considering for Brooklyn U.S. lawyer too Aidala. Trump’s transition team didn’t instantly instrumentality a petition for remark Wednesday, and a Peace spokesperson declined to comment.

Arthur Aidala. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

A Brooklyn native with prosecutorial acquisition successful the borough’s authorities courts, Aidala has defended respective high-profile clients successful caller years, including disgraced movie shaper Harvey Weinstein.

He told The News connected Wednesday it would beryllium a “honor” to go Brooklyn’s U.S. attorney.

“If I was called upon to service the assemblage that I grew up successful and lived successful that capacity, I would see it the grant of a lifetime,” said Aidala, who presently runs his ain white-collar transgression defence instrumentality firm.

As Aidala angles to go Brooklyn’s adjacent apical national prosecutor, respective individuals connected to Adams person been ensared successful Eastern District investigations.

In February, national investigators raided the Bronx homes of Winnie Greco, a elder advisor to Adams, arsenic portion of a probe led by Peace’s bureau that’s astatine slightest successful portion is reportedly scrutinizing fundraising for the mayor’s 2021 campaign.

Greco, who hasn’t been charged with immoderate wrongdoing, resigned from her City Hall occupation successful October aft Adams was criminally indicted successful a abstracted national lawsuit brought by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office.

Aidala besides counts Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Adams’ main adviser, arsenic a client. Aidala is representing Lewis-Martin successful transportation with a corruption probe by the Manhattan territory attorney’s bureau that resulted successful her phones being seized and location raided successful September.

Aidala is besides an Adams run donor and adjacent person of Frank Carone, Adams’ ex-chief of unit and governmental confidant.

Peace’s bureau precocious served a subpoena connected the Brooklyn Diocese seeking records astir fiscal dealings betwixt Carone and Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello, a Brooklyn priest. Aidala is representing Gigantiello successful that substance and has said his lawsuit isn’t a people of that investigation.

Arthur Aidala. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Aidala has represented Giuliani successful ineligible proceedings, too, and counts some the erstwhile politician and Adams arsenic idiosyncratic acquaintances, saying successful an October 2022 vigor appearance: “I’m affable with Mayor Giuliani, and I’m affable with Mayor Adams.”

Aidala declined to remark connected conversations helium has had astir the imaginable U.S. lawyer information oregon accidental whether he’d recuse himself from cases involving existent oregon erstwhile Adams medication officials.

Amid connection that he’s nether information for the job, Aidala got a ringing nationalist endorsement from a salient lawyer with ties to Trump.

“He’s 1 of the champion lawyers successful the city,” said Alan Dershowitz, the erstwhile Harvard University prof who defended Trump during his archetypal U.S. Senate impeachment proceedings successful 2020. “He’s a quintessential Brooklyn New Yorker. If you had to picture the cleanable U.S. lawyer campaigner it’d beryllium Arthur Aidala.”

With John Annese