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Anthony Weiner Is Released From Prison, Moved To Re-Entry Center in Brooklyn
Anthony D. Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman, has been released from a federal prison in Massachusetts and moved to a re-entry center in Brooklyn to serve out the remainder of his sentence for exchanging lewd texts with a minor. Mr. Weiner, whose sexting scandals ended his tenure in Congress and then doomed his bid for New York City mayor, is scheduled to be released on May 14, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records. Mr. Weiner, who served his first 15 months at Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Mass., was supposed to serve a 21-month sentence, but was granted an early release for good behavior.
          
   Anthony D. Weiner arriving at court in Manhattan in 2017. He has been released from a federal prison in Massachusetts and moved to a re-entry center in Brooklyn to finish his sentence for texting with a 15-year-old girl.Credit John Taggart for The NY Times   
Remember Anthony Weiner? He is the former husband of Hilary Clinton's Senior Aide Huma Abedin and it was his sexually explicit texts sent to a 15-year old girl which exposed the politically classified Clinton emails to Huma. Many believe that the discovery of Hilary Clinton's emails to Huma Abedin on Weiner's computer ended Clinton's chance of winning the Presidency.

Conservative Group Judicial Watch has led the way on exposing the massive corruption of both Hillary and Bill Clinton for decades. JW's work is a part of American jurisprudence history. And the story is continuing today in federal court.

Kudos to Judicial Watch for protecting the public interest in transparency and political integrity. President Tom Fitton's book The Corruption Chronicles is a wonderful book which should be read in its entirety.

Betsy Combier
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Anthony Weiner Is Out of Federal Prison, and in a Re-Entry Center in Brooklyn
By Tyler Pager
Feb. 17, 2019

Anthony D. Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman, has been released from a federal prison in Massachusetts and moved to a re-entry center in Brooklyn to serve out the remainder of his sentence for exchanging lewd texts with a minor.

Mr. Weiner, whose sexting scandals ended his tenure in Congress and then doomed his bid for New York City mayor, is scheduled to be released on May 14, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records. Mr. Weiner, who served his first 15 months at Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Mass., was supposed to serve a 21-month sentence, but was granted an early release for good behavior.

Mr. Weiner’s lawyers declined to comment, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Weiner entered prison on Nov. 6, 2017, and must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Mr. Weiner’s time in prison stemmed from a federal investigation into sexually explicit pictures he exchanged in 2016 with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Mr. Weiner, who pleaded guilty to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor, had faced up to 10 years in prison.

“I engaged in obscene communications with this teenager,” Mr. Weiner said in May 2017 as he entered his plea agreement. Those communications “included sharing explicit images and encouraging her to engage in sexually explicit conduct,” just as he had done with adult women, he said.

The investigation resulting from his text messages with the 15-year-old girl also led to a discovery of emails belonging to Huma Abedin, a senior aide to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign whom Mr. Weiner married in 2010.

As a result, James Comey, then the F.B.I. director, announced that the bureau had opened a new inquiry into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email address less than a month before the 2016 presidential election. Mrs. Clinton, a former secretary of state, has pointed to Mr. Comey’s announcement as one of the reasons she lost to President Trump.

Mr. Weiner, a Democrat, resigned from Congress in 2011 after he admitted to engaging in lewd online behavior. He attempted to resurrect his once-promising political career by running for mayor in 2013. Mr. Weiner received less than 5 percent of the vote after additional explicit messages with other women surfaced.

Mr. Weiner and Ms. Abedin share a son, Jordan.

The Bureau of Prisons contracts with re-entry centers, also known as halfway houses, to help inmates nearing release with the transition. The program aims to help inmates with job and financial assistance with the goal of reducing the risk of committing additional crimes.

Mr. Weiner, known for his scrappy and brash style, entered Congress in 1998, winning the seat Chuck Schumer vacated after being elected to the United States Senate. Mr. Weiner had previously served eight years on the City Council, where he was the youngest person ever elected.

“I acted not only unlawfully but immorally, and if I had done the right thing, I would not be standing before you today,” Mr. Weiner told the judge during his sentencing hearing in 2017.

“The prosecutors are skeptical that I have truly changed and I don’t blame them,” he said. “I repeatedly acted in an obviously destructive way when I was caught.”


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