Anthony Weiner has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for inappropriately texting with a 15-year-old girl in a case that may have cost Hillary Clinton’s the presidency.
Weiner, 53, dropped his head into his hand and wept as the sentence was announced by Judge Denise Cote. After the hearing ended and Cote left the bench, he sat in his seat for several minutes, continuing to cry. He said nothing as he left the courthouse and must surrender to prison officials by Nov. 6.
The former Democratic congressman from New York had faced up to 27 months in prison on Monday after his guilty plea to one charge of transferring obscene material to a minor. Prosecutors say he broke the law by having illicit contact with a 15-year-old girl using Skype and Snapchat.
The sentencing completed the sordid downfall of the New York Democrat, whose penchant for exchanging inappropriate messages and photos with young women online destroyed his career in Congress in 2011, doomed his bid for mayor of New York in 2013, wrecked his marriage to Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, and became entangled in the 2016 presidential campaign.
It also became an issue in the closing days of 2016 presidential election when then FBI Director James Comey cited emails discovered on a laptop used by Weiner to justify reopening the probe of Clinton’s private computer server.
In her new memoir, “What Happened,” Clinton revealed that Weiner’s wife “looked stricken” and burst into tears upon learning her husband had triggered Comey’s “October surprise.”
“This man is going to be the death of me,” Abedin was quoted as saying.
(AP)
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6 Responses
What a mussar shmuz. He didn’t control his ta’avos, so he lost his power, his career, his reputation, his wife, and now his freedom. It’s similar to tzara’as on the, then the clothes, then the body — hesger-imprisonment.
No surprise this came during the 10 Days….
idiot and pervert
Thank you YWN for editing out the obscene descriptions in the original article, which was posted in its entirety on another “frum” website. We don’t need to read all the salacious details… it’s enough we know this is a disgusting person.
Vosepes,
So true, how a little lack of self control can sink a person so low. He had everything going and it wasn’t enough..
WHY report on this garbage. Nothing good about him. He isn’t worth the time to write about him
” in a case that may have cost Hillary Clinton’s the presidency.”
Oh please, she lost the Presidency because Hashem opened the eyes of millions to Americans that Trump, with all his faults was TEN THOUSAND TIMES SAFER for America than Hillary, who had sold her office as Secty of State to the Saudis, the Russians to ANYONE who was willing to give her 100’s of millions in “donations” to her “Foundation”.