Weiner Pleads Guilty for Sexting With a Minor
Sentencing scheduled for September 8.
*UPDATE* Weiner has pleaded guilty and the judge said “he would have to register as a sex offender.
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner has decided to enter a guilty plea in federal court for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. He might have to register as a sex offender. From NBC 4 New York:
Weiner surrendered to the FBI Friday morning, officials familiar with the matter said, and will plead guilty to one count related to transferring obscene material to a minor. Prosecutors are expected to recommend two years in prison, though Weiner’s attorneys are likely to ask for probation.
The potential charges stemmed from the sexually charged text messages and Skype conversations he allegedly exchanged with a 15-year-old girl for months last year. The messages were revealed when online news outlet DailyMail.com interviewed the girl last September.
Weiner read his allocution in front of the court:
Beginning with my service in Congress and continuing into the first half of last year, I have compulsively sought attention from women who contacted me on social media, and I engaged with many of them in both sexual and non-sexual conversation. These destructive impulses brought great devastation to family and friends, and destroyed my life’s dream of public service. And yet I remained in denial even as the world around me fell apart.
In late January 2016, I was contacted by and began exchanging online messages with a stranger who said that she was a high school student and who I understood to be 15 years old. Through approximately March 2016, I engaged in obscene communications with this teenager, including sharing explicit images and encouraging her to engage in sexually explicit conduct, just as I had done and continued to do with adult women. I knew this was as morally wrong as it was unlawful.
This fall, I came to grips for the first time with the depths of my sickness. I had hit bottom. I entered intensive treatment, found the courage to take a moral inventory of my defects, and began a program of recovery and mental health treatment that I continue to follow every day.
I accept full responsibility for my conduct. I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse. I apologize to everyone I have hurt. I apologize to the teenage girl, whom I mistreated so badly. I am committed to making amends to all those I have harmed. Thank you.
The court scheduled his sentencing for September 8.
Last September, the 15-year-old girl told The Daily Mail that the two of them “carried on a months-long sexual relationship.” She told the publication that “he asked her to dress up in ‘school-girl’ outfits” and tried to persuade her to participate in his “rape fantasies.”
The FBI began an investigation, which meant Weiner had to hand over his electronics. Well, as you know, he is married to failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s closest confidante Huma Abedin. Investigators discovered emails between Hillary and Huma, who immediately denied knowledge how those emails ended up on the co-owned computer.
The investigation had former FBI Director James Comey announce a new investigation into Hillary’s email scandal during her tenure as Secretary of State. But this investigation ended a few days before the election without charges against Hillary.
Of course Hillary continues to blame Comey for her loss despite a pile of evidence proving her wrong.
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Anthony Wiener, John Edwards, Bill Clinton–why is the Progressive party so full of sex creeps?
–Andrew
For his house arrest – look for Weiner to serve his time on Jeffrey Epstein’s Pervert Island. Maybe he can say hi to Bill while he is there.
Well, they are the Party of No Personal Responsibility
Does the deal get him out of having to explain how he has some of Hillary’s e-mails—the ones he’s not supposed to have—on his computer?
The update on the actual guilty plea is interesting, because it reports that, as part of the plea accepted by the judge, “Weiner agreed … not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months in prison.”
I expect this will make it hard for the judge *not* to impose at least some prison time as part of the sentence, since it was the bargain agreed to by both the U.S. Attorney and Weiner, presumably with his defense lawyer’s approval.
How does “might have to register” become negotiable?
“Weiner agreed … not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months in prison.”
If one is going to prison, one is guilty, one can’t negotiate registrations n as a sex offender.
Presumably.
He has the option of registering as Carlos Danger
Judge: “How do you plead?
Weiner: “Guilty”
(thunderous applause)
Judge: “Congratulations! Show Mr. Weiner what he won, Don!”
Judge: “Of course, everyone gets parting gifts just for playing.”
I’ll just leave this out here.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-secret-service-officer-gets-20-years-sexting-teens-white-n761891
I wonder if they cut him a break from the max to sing on someone else.?
Hey, when you are in the Clinton inner circle-jerk, you are never held accountable for your crimes.
Take Hillary, Huma and Bill with him. How is it that a Congressman named Weiner sent women pictures of his weiner from the Capitol grounds and his married to the trusted confidant of the woman whose husband is known to have had women play with his weiner in the White House? You can’t make this stuff up.
A sex criminal? Good thing he’s not married to anybody with powerful political contacts, or he might have illegally been in possession of classified materials and been a giant security risk.
Oh, wait…
Wow! That pic shows just how Huma Weiner is missing her Hilary!
Huma’s gone to pot………