Hillary Clinton’s former associate and Former New York congressman Anthony Weiner has claimed it’s absurd that he had to serve prison time for sexting a minor
Weiner’s political career came to a halt in May 2011 when he pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15 year old girl.
While he initially tried to dismiss the incident, claiming his account was hacked, the event snowballed into a sexting scandal.
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He was sentenced to 21 months behind bars, though he was released after serving only 15 months.
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Despite his early release, Weiner believed his punishment didn’t fit the crime, and branded his prison stint “ridiculous.”
The sex scandal and was again exposed in 2013 when he ran for New York mayor
Weiner stepped down from Congress in June 2011 but tried to revive his political career in 2013 by running for mayor of New York, but that campaign imploded amid reports of further graphic online messages.
Radar Online reports: In April 2013, as he was running for mayor of New York City, he was caught in another sexting scandal with a 22-year-old woman, effectively ending his race.
Three years later in 2016, a report exposed another explicit photo he sent to a woman, in which his then-4-year-old son Jordan was seen sleeping in bed next to him.
Weeks later, it was revealed that he sent an explicit photo to a 15-year-old girl, prompting an FBI probe. His ex-wife, Huma Abedin, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton, then filed for divorce.
A week before the 2016 presidential election, the FBI announced they discovered messages between Clinton and Abedin on Weiner’s seized laptop.
The communication relaunched the infamous probe into Clinton’s use of private emails, which the former Secretary of State credited as a factor in her loss to Donald Trump.
