{"id":7619,"date":"2017-05-19T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:57:29","slug":"anthony-weiner-pleads-guilty-sexting-15-year-old-girl-serve-27-months-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/05\/19\/anthony-weiner-pleads-guilty-sexting-15-year-old-girl-serve-27-months-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Weiner pleads guilty to sexting with 15-year-old girl, could serve up to 27 months in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside id=\"ra-left\">\n<section class=\"ra-meta\">\n<div class=\"ra-byline\">BY\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Victoria-Bekiempis\" rel=\"author\">Victoria Bekiempis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Adam-Edelman\" rel=\"author\">Adam Edelman<\/a> <a id=\"ra-follow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/abedelman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"ra-meta\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"ra-meta\">Pervy ex-pol Anthony Weiner, his stunning fall from grace complete, faces federal jail time after pleading guilty Friday to sending obscene material to a minor.<\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<article id=\"ra-body\">\u201cI have a sickness, but not an excuse,\u201d Weiner said in confession to his crime.Weiner, 52, once a Congressman with far bigger ambitions, arrived quietly in Courtroom 12A at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse for the final scene in his bizarre sexual self-immolation.<\/p>\n<p>Once the plea was entered, prosecutors said they will ask for 21 to 27 months in prison for Weiner.<\/p>\n<p>Weiner wore a navy blue suit with a maroon tie, and his hands shook as he signed court papers related to his plea after arriving for the 11 a.m. hearing.<\/p>\n<p>He was under investigation was for his creepy cyber-courting of a 15-year-old North Carolina girl. The courtroom was filled to capacity just a few hours after word of the deal became public knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Weiner career was torpedoed over and over by his online sexual antics, even after he married Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin \u2014 and the couple welcomed a son.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ra-module\">\n<div class=\"ra-gallery\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/women-weiner-gate-gallery-1.21415\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.1407516.1495206514%21\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_635_424\/anthony-weiner.jpg\" alt=\"New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner speaks to reporters during a press conference where he admitted to sending sexually explicit text messages in New York, New York, USA, 23 July 2013.\" width=\"635\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Weiner\u2019s laptop computer even helped sabotage Hillary Clinton\u2019s shot at the White House. He pleaded to ransferring obscene material to a minor, and could face up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Weiner was taken into FBI custody Friday morning, a source told the Daily News. He was not in handcuffs when he reached the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>The disgraced politician was under federal investigation for exchanging sexually explicit messages and images with the Carolina teen last year.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Weiner\u2019s lawyers had reportedly been in talks with federal prosecutors for weeks, angling for a plea deal to avoid the most serious possible charge, production of child pornography, which would have carried a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The plea stems from Weiner\u2019s most recent sexting scandal. Last year, the high school girl came forward to say that he had been exchanging explicit messages with her.<\/p>\n<p>The girl said she decided to go public with their exchanges after seeing reports of Weiner sending pics to another woman with his toddler son in the background.<\/p>\n<p>The teen has claimed he encouraged her to role-play rape fantasies with him and to say his name while touching herself.<\/p>\n<p>Weiner reportedly went by the name \u201cT-Dog\u201d while texting the teen and used an encryption app that erases messages and pictures as soon as they\u2019re seen.<\/p>\n<p>In one shirtless photo sent to the girl, Weiner\u2019s hand is gripping his genitals.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation follows a series of public embarrassments that cost Weiner his political career and his marriage \u2014 and may have helped damage Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Abedin, a top aide to Clinton, announced their separation last August after Weiner was caught sending a lewd selfie that showed his 4-year-old son lying next to him in bed.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators soon seized Weiner\u2019s electronic devices, including a laptop and a cellphone, as part of the probe into that picture \u2014 leading to a series of events that many say contributed to Clinton losing the election.<\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators soon uncovered emails on his laptop that were sent by his estranged wife, prompting FBI Director James Comey to reopen an investigation into Clinton\u2019s emails out of concern the shared computer might have had classified documents.<\/p>\n<p>Comey quickly closed the case without any charges, but his announcement, just days before the election, that he\u2019d reopened it at all created negative publicity during a critical moment of the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats said the attention might have contributed to President Trump\u2019s win.<\/p>\n<p>A Clinton presidency isn\u2019t the only thing Weiner lost due to his pervy online personas.<\/p>\n<p>The Queens Democrat resigned from Congress in 2011 after a lurid sexting scandal involving a crotch shot that he posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>A testy Weiner insisted to reporters at the time that his account had been hacked. But days later, he came clean and resigned.<\/p>\n<p>He later admitted during a press conference to having carried on inappropriate online relationships with at least a half dozen women.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, he attempted a political comeback and ran for New York City mayor, but his bid imploded when more online exchanges with women surfaced, including messages he traded with a woman named Sydney Leathers under the pseudonym \u201cCarlos Danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/anthony-weiner-pleads-guilty-underage-sexts-faces-prison-time-article-1.3178942?51385=&amp;utm_content=buffer56767&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nydailynews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">BY\u00a0 Victoria Bekiempis Adam Edelman Pervy ex-pol Anthony Weiner, his stunning fall from grace complete, faces federal jail time after pleading guilty Friday to sending obscene material to a minor. \u201cI have a sickness, but <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/05\/19\/anthony-weiner-pleads-guilty-sexting-15-year-old-girl-serve-27-months-prison\/\" title=\"Anthony Weiner pleads guilty to sexting with 15-year-old girl, could serve up to 27 months in prison\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1350,1172,3531],"class_list":{"0":"post-7619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-anthony-weiner","10":"tag-fbi","11":"tag-sex-crimes","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}