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Weiner and his former wife
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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

 

Anthony Weiner is scheduled for early release next spring from his sexting prison sentence.

 

Anthony Weiner, a former Democratic Member of Congress from New York who texted away his career one sext at a time, is scheduled to be released three months early next spring from a special medical federal prison, according to prison records.

 

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Really, it’s just a schmeckle …
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The Weiner, 54, began serving a 21-month sentence at Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts, in November 2017 for transferring obscene material to a minor.  Devens is one of two federal prisons that house sex offenders who volunteer for what the Federal Bureau of Prisons describes as “high-intensity programming” to prevent their re-offending.

 

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The Weiner sexting
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U.S. District Judge Denise Cote sentenced Weiner, once a rising star in the Democratic Party, in September 2017, saying Weiner’s crime resulted from a “very strong compulsion.”

 

Weiner said at his sentencing that “I was a very sick man for a long time,” adding: “I have a disease, but I have no excuse.”

 

The Weiner’s travails got caught up in the presidential campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose former top aide, Huma Abedin, married Weiner in 2010.

 

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Texting incognito
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James Comey, then the director of the FBI, announced in October 2016 that he was reopening an investigation of Clinton’s use of a private computer server after emails between Clinton and Abedin were found on Weiner’s laptop computer, along with surely all sorts of other things.

 

It wasn’t the first time that the Weiner had been laid low by sending racy texts — he resigned from Congress in 2011 after it emerged that he had sent lewd photos of himself to women online and then lied about it.

Source: Anthony Weiner scheduled for early release next spring

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