April 28, 2024

Living the dream with former crime family associate turned informant Aiden Gabor

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From the Shadows to the Light: Join us on a riveting journey with Aiden Gabor, a former crime family associate turned informant, as he recounts his treacherous path through the criminal underworld to his transformative embrace of spirituality and the Baha'i faith. In this episode of Living the Dream with Curveball, discover how Aiden's life of enforcing mob rule led to a life-threatening ultimatum from the DOJ that changed his destiny. Hear his tales of betrayal, redemption, and his current battle with ALS, all while learning about his compelling book, "Conflicting Royalties.

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> Speaker A>Welcome, um, to the Living the Dream podcast with curveball. Um, if you believe you can achieve Chee Chee.

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> Speaker A>Welcome to the Living the Dream with curveball podcast, a show where I interview guests that teach, motivate, and inspire.

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> Speaker A>Today I am joined by Aiden Gabor.

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> Speaker A>Aiden is a former associate of a well known crime family. He spent years working as a confidential informant and helped bring corrupt police and politicians to justice. So we're going to be talking to him about his story and anything that he's up to currently. So, Aiden, thank you so much for joining me today.

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> Aiden Gabor>Thank you for having me on, Curtis. Thank you, sir.

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> Speaker A>Why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself.

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> Aiden Gabor>My name is Inga Boar. I started off young, um, working for a crew, ah, delivering, um, packages, I guess, back. Bring this here, pick this up. As I got older, uh, I was really big for my age. Eddie, which he would tell us he had a good. He liked me, I guess you can say. And I spurred my way up to collecting and whatever he needs to do. I didn't care. I had to beat somebody or do what it took to, uh, take care of business, I guess you can say. And, uh, as I worked hard, I ended up, uh, because of who I associated with. I got it. The DOJ decided to come up and kind of tell me if you kind of didn't give me a choice, that if you didn't help us out, that we, uh, would, uh, put the Rico laws and all this. At the time, I'm 18 years old, and I didn't know they were threatening my mother. My father, my father was. My father was an associate with him. And I basically, uh, they wanted me to basically put a snake in the snake pit. And I ended up, when I worked with the guys, I would see the police officers, politician bring money to take money from or whatever they were bringing in. You could see him at the, uh, I guess you want to call it the chop shop. But it was also like a little social place. And, uh, they would be up there all the time. And as I got older, and then they asked me to get information on these guys, and it wasn't one of those.

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> Aiden Gabor>I would go in as a, I guess, undercover. I went in as an informant. So basically, I'm in my own. I don't think they wouldn't give a shit if I got hurt or anything happened. At least you told me, something goes wrong, you need to figure it out.

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> Aiden Gabor>We just need information. And at first, I mean, I was really, really, uh, um, uh, you know, that's where the conflicting warranties came in. You know, I want to say, you know, I never said anything. Gets the guys, the crew I ran with and all that. Never did anything against them. Um, when they did ask, I said, send me Joe, you can f off.

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> Aiden Gabor>And I end up, when I started, really was like, why am I doing this? And then I realized, no, these guys should be out there protecting and, you know, doing the right thing.

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> Aiden Gabor>That's what they were sworn in to do.

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> Aiden Gabor>And I ended up taking a bunch of them down. And I ended up, uh, finding. Working at a casino and I worked with. I found my love, my wife.

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> Aiden Gabor>And then from there I spent spirituality, which really, I was never a spiritual person. I mean, I used to. I was catholic. And I would go into confessional and father John would ask me like, hey, um, um, you know, hey, what did you do? What bad things are they not see nothing, but.

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> Aiden Gabor>You gotta be kidding me. And I don't know, but get the out of here. We wanna see you. Yeah, I used to piss them off and I was never. I was really used to joke that I worked for the other guy. You know, I would recruit for the other guy because I had no religion in me. When I found out the high faith and started reading up their eyes meetings because of a friend of mine, Sam, and my wife Sabrina, telling me, hey, you need to get religion. And growing up, my best friend Don, um, would tell me the same thing because he's very catholic and I never read the Bible.

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> Aiden Gabor>But after reading that spirituality, something just hit me one day. And sitting outside in the sun, looking up, I just felt a feeling of, I, uh, guess, euphoria. Feel like I felt warmth, like. And since then, I've been following fates and trying to turn my.

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> Aiden Gabor>Can't redeem for anything as I've done. But I can make the world better going forward. Learned that everybody's equal. We all bleed red, and we are all equal. Men and women, I don't care. Black, white, pink, purple, whatever color, we are all equal.

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> Aiden Gabor>We need to understand that and work together and make the world a better place.

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> Speaker A>Okay, so can you say who you worked for? Are you not able to disclose that information?

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> Aiden Gabor>No, I'm not able to disclose any other information. Uh, give me the book. It says names, places. And everything has been changed to protect the guilty. We all were guilty. Everybody I dealt with, there was nobody that was innocent. So to protect the guilty and protect my family, so others, I don't disclose anything.

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> Speaker A>So what was the worst thing that, that you done? If you can talk about it. What, when you were living that type of life?

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> Aiden Gabor>Oh, you name it, I've done it. Uh, most time, you know, you collect, you know, everybody killed.

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> Aiden Gabor>You watch a stupid movie and they would say, hey, you know, they would, you know, Fred, they're going to kill you. They're going to do this, you know, you know, those things. Bad business. No one's going to pay if they're not around. So you break a leg here, an arm, a finger. Fingers are the best, or even a tow.

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> Aiden Gabor>But you would, um, you know, uh, you get it and stuff. You know, the only time we anything really bad against is other crews that they were poaching or. We did have some gangs, a lot of gangs in the area, and we would work with them, but sometimes we, you know, they would try something different that we would say we wouldn't do. They would say they wouldn't do. You know, Eddie was his biggest thing is no drugs. We do not want the drugs. Let the gang banger deal with that. We're going to percentage. But sometimes they wouldn't pay. So you would have a little disagreement and that's why you worked with all the different ones around there. Um, but, yeah, you really can't say the worst things I've done, but I broke a lot of limbs in my day.

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> Speaker A>Okay, so tell us what it was like working as an informant. Like, as much as you can. Did you have to change your identity? Did you have to move or what was that like?

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> Aiden Gabor>No, I didn't change really anything.

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> Aiden Gabor>I wanted to go in this room because the people would see me and say, okay, what's this? You know, what's this clown doing here? Coming here to talk to, you know, be a. Be a cop, you know, we know what he did, what shit he was into. And I remember the commissioner who ended up. I end up putting away was a dirty as dirty can be. And he's like, hey, you're going to tell the line? I would, sir. Whatever I need to do, I will tell the line and a couple guys that we know, like, what are you doing in here? What are you up to? I got my own shit I'm doing, you know, don't worry about me. I got my own thing. But you know what? You just keep yours, I'll keep mine, and you will just stay out of each other's way.

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> Aiden Gabor>And they would look at me like, okay, we have to worry about this clown over here. He'll be fine, you know?

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> Aiden Gabor>And, uh, you know, I would. They would ask me, I'd give information on where certain things would happen or if I can get tapes or I'd give it to him. Um, basically, you know, they want an informant that would be able to go round and round. If you do certain things and bring them in and you have to testify, you're one and done. And they don't want that. They wanted everybody. They didn't just want one or two guys. They didn't want it to talk, but they wanted to top down. They want to take the whole pyramid.

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> Aiden Gabor>So I got all the information I can get and end up putting, uh, several politicians officers away.

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> Speaker A>Okay, so tell us a little more about your faith. I don't want to butcher the name, but the baha faith, the baha'I faith.

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> Aiden Gabor>Baha'I, uh, it's the youngest religion, technically, uh, of Dubai in the 1860s.

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> Aiden Gabor>He is the only one that ever did a miracle. Because everything you hear about miracles, messiah that's come down over the years, you know, muhammad, Jesus and all they've done their miracles, and it's in the bible, so. But this is he. Abdul Bahai did his with newspapers.

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> Aiden Gabor>And his readings is different, because if you look at most christian, I'm not sure what year is.

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> Speaker A>I'm a Christian.

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> Aiden Gabor>Are you christian? Okay, so in the christian faith, the Roman subservient to the man, especially, you know, 90 and most of them. And in the Baha'I faith, we're all equal. Man and woman are equal. And that's where I've always thought. But I was never a religious person. Not at all.

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> Aiden Gabor>And reading out the Baha'I speak, you know, I could never be. I used to get my buddy saying, be the best baha'I you can be.

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> Aiden Gabor>You'd have to be perfect to be able to baha'I. You have to follow everything. You're like, you know, no drinking, no swearing. No, you know, 90% I could do. I still swear. I can't help it.

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> Aiden Gabor>I swear like a truck driver. And my, uh, wife and I, when we first met, we did a swear jar.

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> Aiden Gabor>And my first month, I had $850.

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> Aiden Gabor>And to this day, we still kind of have nice. Right now I'm at, like, I think this month I'm at, uh, like 70 already. But, you know, I'm doing better. And the faith is everybody's equal.

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> Aiden Gabor>I don't care. They don't care how race you are or anything, but we all look at the world as equal, and I wish the world would look at that when I was not like that. And it's just something that made me want inside, uh, that feeling, uh, the spirituality I never had. And I'm so glad I found it. And we do a class, which is like a bible class and jewelry classes. I do it three times a week. This is a, um. Man that never did anything. I was, like I said, I joked, I worked with the other guy. I worked with the other guy.

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> Aiden Gabor>Nowadays, I work with special needs kids, and I work, you know, trying to.

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> Aiden Gabor>And, uh, I do everything I can to try and make the world a better place, but that's kind of behind faith is everybody's equal, and we believe in each other.

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> Speaker A>Okay, well, in 2020, I was reading your bio.

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> Speaker A>It said in 2020, you was diagnosed with als. So kind of tell us how that's kind of affected your life last three, four years.

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> Aiden Gabor>You know, it was back in the day, growing up, I was diagnosed with no empathy, so I didn't have any, like, you know, if I hurt somebody, it sucks to be them. They're better than bleeding. And me never worried about beating up anyone unless we were family or, you know, family. We're very close friends, which is family. And, um, I got diagnosed with ALS, and I didn't care about dying. I was never really afraid when I got als. I accepted it. But then I realized after finding bi faith, I want to live. I want to be out there to help as much as I can help.

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> Aiden Gabor>And, um, I do everything the doctors tell me, and I know what ALS is at that sentence. And again, I go back to joking that God's got a sense of humor with all this. You know, I was cesspool. I was assessable. I did a lot of things.

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> Aiden Gabor>And God's repaying me, and he's going to do it slowly. And I'm.

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> Aiden Gabor>You know what? I get it. I get it.

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> Aiden Gabor>And, uh, it's affecting me a lot. But I am working every day trying to make the world a better place.

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> Speaker A>Okay, well, tell the lessons about your book where. Where they can get it and what they can expect when they read it.

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> Aiden Gabor>Well, you can get it. You know, you can get it at Barnes. And we get on Amazon, conflicting royalties. Um, we go conflictingroyalty.com. You can go on there. It tells you all the several sites, Coba and all that. Um, and the book reading a whole is, I hope, you know, people can see that you could 90 degree yourself. You can be a bad ass, whatever you want to call it. But if you find spirituality, it can help, you know.

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> Aiden Gabor>So I want people to understand, you know, that there's somebody out there with, uh, police officers that, uh, not all bad police officers are bad. When I, you know, I went through tomorrow times in the book, and you'll read that, uh, I, going through everything, convicts and royalties is when I, when, you know, you're, you're in a family or crew, you got a, you got the La Jolla and it's a family thing. And, you know, I didn't do anything against them. But when you become a police officer, you got that blue line. You don't cross that blue line. And I became an alcoholic in my younger years when I started doing this really bad. And I would put a 357, put a magnum round, um, there, spin it and put it to my temple or remain my mouth and pull it. I bet you I remember at least 200 times, if not more. I mean, I have nightmares with it.

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> Aiden Gabor>And it got to be at least 200 more times. I don't remember because I was such in a drunken stupor that, you know, uh, I was taking bad police officers. But you're going against WIFC, say, Michael with the flaming sword coming at me in this hallucinations. And I would, you know, I didn't mention, figure these guys should be taken off the street and every one or two bad police officers make 100,000 look bad. And I want people to understand there's people out there to take down these bad police officers. Not all police officers are bad. They're out there to protect, serve and do the good. They're out there.

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> Aiden Gabor>99% are good guys, men and women. And I hope that people understand that there's people out there understand that. You know what? Spirituality is important. You need them in your life. You need to understand you can redeem yourself. You can't fix everything you've done. You can't. But you're going to obtain, you're going to talk. You know, God's going to get you and what you've done. He forgives you. And just as we go to another plane, you gotta make yourself better. You gotta work yourself to be better, which I know I'm gonna have a lot of work to do. And I just want people to understand that the book out there is explained, that you can start out as a bad person, but you can change and make a world a better place.

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> Speaker A>Tell us about any current or upcoming projects that you're working on that listeners need to be aware of.

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> Aiden Gabor>You know, right now there's nothing here. Everybody jokes that, you know, you should, you should do a movie. And I'm thinking, yeah, it took a while for me to do the book. My buddy Sam, who got me with the spirituality, got me with the baha'I faith or grew up with. He said that, you know, we talked. I said, you know what?

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> Aiden Gabor>He said, no. Um, we did this as a therapy. You need to do this as a therapy, you know, just to do this.

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> Aiden Gabor>And when I went and talked about it, we said he, could you write a book? Therapy? And that's how that started. Is there anything else? I mean, I got nothing right now. Um, I'm sure eventually, maybe, but I'm not thinking about that right now. I'm thinking that, you know what? People can read it. Let's see how it goes. And if they can believe in it, and, uh, you can believe in yourself, you can change.

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> Aiden Gabor>And that's what I'm hoping you're being out there. But right now, I have nothing really in the plans. Possibly another book, and I can break this down in three or four different books, but, um, I'm not sure what I have left. And if I have, you know, it took two years just to do this. And a lot of nightmares and night terrors. I'm still having them, but it's something I need to get out, and I need to fix my psyche with that, I guess you could say.

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> Speaker A>Okay, well, throw out your contact information so listeners can keep up with everything that you're up to.

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> Aiden Gabor>We're on Facebook, adengore.com. You got Aidan Gabor on Facebook. Um, any of that. So we'll have everything in there. Um, and just getting a book out. But like I said, convictingroyalty.com is our big one that we have for us. And, um, that's really it right now. Uh, you got Amazon, Barnes, and mobile Cobra, all that. It's on. Um, and, you know, you can get the book on there.

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> Speaker A>Okay. Close this out with some final thoughts. Maybe if that was something I forgot to talk about that you would like to touch on, or any final thoughts you have for the listeners, like I.

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> Aiden Gabor>Said, for listeners, is if you read the book, you can believe.

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> Aiden Gabor>You can read and see some people through some shit, and that, uh, they can change. And that means you can change. There's help out there for everybody.

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> Aiden Gabor>It may be, but, you know, your local, I don't care. It's Catholic, jewish, Muslim, whatever. You're somebody out there you can reach out to and talk to that they will. They will talk to you, whether it's your. Your priest, your rabbi, any of that. Uh, you can have somebody talk to you that, uh, they're not alone and that people have been through some.

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> Aiden Gabor>Some stupid shit and some bad shit that can change their lives. And you could do it. Um, but that's really all I have. Do you have anything for me, Curtis? You want to ask? Anything you'd like to know?

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> Speaker A>Nope. I think we covered it up. I just want to ask the listeners to follow great review. Share this episode to as many people as possible. Pick up Ayton's book, jump on your favorite podcast app. Give us a like and a review. If you have any guest or suggestion topics, see Jackson 10 two is the place to share them.

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> Speaker A>As always, thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting the show.

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> Speaker A>And Aidan, thank you so much for joining, uh, me and sharing your story.

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> Aiden Gabor>You know, Curtis, thank you so much. It was an honor to be on the show.

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> Aiden Gabor>And again, thank you, sir.

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> Speaker A>For more information on the living the Dream podcast, visit www.djcurveball.com.

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> Speaker A>Until next time, stay focused on living the drain.

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> Aiden Gabor>Drain.