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U.S. NEWS Monday 18 February 2019

Disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner

released from prison

AYER, Mass. (AP) — Dis-
graced former Congress-
man Anthony Weiner has
been released from fed-
eral prison after being con-
victed of having illicit online
contact with a 15-year-old
girl in 2017.
The Federal Bureau of Pris-
ons website shows the
54-year-old New York Dem-
ocrat is currently in the cus-
tody of its Residential Re-
entry Management office
in Brooklyn, New York.
It’s not immediately clear
when Weiner was trans-
ferred and where he’s stay-
ing now, but Weiner will
have to register as a sex-
offender and spend three In this Sept. 25, 2017 file photo, former Congressman Anthony Weiner leaves federal court following
years on supervised release his sentencing in New York.
under the terms of his sen- Associated Press
tence. But his personal behavior
The prison bureau, federal was again his undoing af-
prosecutors in New York ter it was disclosed he sent
and Weiner’s lawyer didn’t explicit photos under the
respond to emails seeking alias “Carlos Danger” to at
comment Sunday. least one woman after re-
Weiner began serving a signing from Congress.
21-month prison sentence Weiner ultimately garnered
at the Federal Medical less than 5 percent of the
Center Devens, located vote in the Democratic pri-
about 40 miles (64 kilome- mary.
ters) west of Boston in Ayer, His final fall came in 2017 af-
Massachusetts, in Novem- ter prosecutors say he sent
ber 2017. The bureau web- a series of sexually explicit
site shows Weiner is slated messages to a North Caro-
to complete his sentence lina high school student.
May 14, a few months ear- Weiner pleaded guilty to
lier than scheduled be- transferring obscene mate-
cause of good conduct in rial to a minor.
prison. A once-rising star in At his sentencing, he said
the Democratic Party who he’d been a “very sick
served nearly 12 years in man for a very long time”
Congress, Weiner had a because of his sex addic-
dramatic and sordid fall tion.
from grace after he sent a Weiner’s attorney said
lewd picture of himself to a the ex-lawmaker likely ex-
college student over Twit- changed thousands of
ter in 2011. messages with hundreds
Weiner initially claimed of women over the years
his account had been and was communicating
hacked, then admitted with up to 19 women when
he’d had inappropriate he encountered the teen-
online interactions with at ager.
least six other women while Abedin also filed for di-
married to top Hillary Clin- vorce from Weiner in 2017.
ton aide Huma Abedin. But the two, who have a
Weiner resigned from Con- young son together, later
gress that year but mount- agreed to discontinue the
ed a campaign for New case in order to negotiate
York City mayor in 2013. their separation privately.q