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U.S. NEWS Saturday 6 april 2019

Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner ordered

to register as sex offender

By MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Former
Rep. Anthony Weiner was
ordered Friday to register as
a sex offender as he nears
the end of a 21-month
prison sentence for having
illicit online contact with a
Attorney General William Barr attends the 2019 Prison Reform 15-year-old girl.
Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the A New York City judge des-
White House in Washington, Monday, April 1, 2019. ignated Weiner a Level 1
Associated Press
offender under the state’s
FBI, Bureau of Prisons version of what’s known
as Megan’s Law, meaning
ordered to probe that he is thought to have a In this Sept. 25, 2017 file photo, former Congressman Anthony
low risk of reoffending.
Weiner leaves federal court following his sentencing in New
LGBTQ discrimination Weiner, a once-rising star in York. Associated Press
the Democratic Party who
served nearly 12 years in nor. at least six other women
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Congress, has been living Prosecutors said he had while married to top Hillary
Associated Press in a halfway house since a series of sexually explicit Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
NEW YORK (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has or- February after serving most Skype and Snapchat ex- Weiner resigned from Con-
dered the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons to investigate al- of his sentence at a prison changes with a North Car- gress, only to try for a po-
legations of discrimination against LGBTQ employees, he in Massachusetts. olina high school student litical comeback with a run
said in a letter released Friday. He’s due to be released and encouraged the teen for New York City mayor in
The announcement came in response to concerns from May 14 but still faces three to strip naked and touch 2013. Then came the reve-
DOJ Pride, a group that represents thousands of LGBTQ years of court supervision. herself sexually. lation that Weiner had used
employees at the Justice Department and its component Weiner, 54, must register for At his sentencing, Weiner the alias “Carlos Danger”
agencies. a minimum of 20 years. He said he’d been a “very sick to send explicit photos to
The group’s board of directors sent a letter to Barr last is required to verify his ad- man for a very long time” at least one woman after
week that asked him to sign an equal employment op- dress every year, notify the and said he had a sex ad- resigning from Congress.
portunity statement and raised concerns from a survey state within 10 days of mov- diction. Weiner received less than
of its members. The concerns included allegations that ing and visit a police station Weiner’s lawyer said the 5% of the Democratic pri-
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender agents at the FBI every three years to have a former lawmaker likely ex- mary vote.
academy face discrimination and different evaluation new picture taken. changed thousands of The investigation into
standards, as well as gay agents being dismissed from Because of his low-level messages with hundreds Weiner’s contact with the
the academy “because they are not ‘bro-y’ or mascu- designation, Weiner’s in- of women over the years 15-year-old roiled the 2016
line enough.” formation won’t show up and was communicating presidential campaign be-
Members said it is hard for gay men and transgender em- in the state’s online sex of- with up to 19 women when cause emails Clinton had
ployees to work at the Bureau of Prisons and the agency fender registry but will be he encountered the teen- sent to Abedin were found
doesn’t attract or retain them. available via a toll-free ager. on a laptop computer FBI
Others were concerned the Justice Department is not as telephone number. It wasn’t the first time Wein- agents seized from him.
much of a “welcoming, inclusive environment” for LGBTQ Weiner didn’t attend Fri- er had been caught acting That led then-FBI Direc-
employees as it once was, the letter said. “Given the cru- day’s court hearing. Mes- inappropriately. tor James Comey to an-
cial role the Department fulfills in our society_enforcing sages seeking comment After sending a lewd pic- nounce just days before the
the nation’s laws and administering justice_we are con- were emailed to his law- ture of himself to a college election that that agency
cerned that so many employees who dedicate them- yers. student in 2011, Weiner was reopening its investiga-
selves to the Department do not think the Department Weiner pleaded guilty in claimed his account had tion into Clinton’s use of a
values them, or that it attracts the best and brightest of May 2017 to transferring been hacked, then admit- private email server while
the LGBTQ community,” the board members said.q obscene material to a mi- ted online interactions with secretary of state.q