Anthony Weiner Faces Jail Over Child Porn Charges
Serial philanderer, creeper and failed politician Anthony Weiner is now facing child pornography charges stemming from an investigation into his porn laptop he used to communicate with underage girls. This is the same laptop that Huma Abedin had used to download all of Hillary Clinton’s private emails from her closet server. Seems while investigators looked into Weiner’s creeping on girls, they found incriminating evidence of sending and receiving photos from underage girls, PLUS that stash of missing emails. With the Democrats still in charge of the DOJ pending Trump’s attorney general nomination approval, a deal is quickly being cut where Weiner might avoid some jail time.
From the WSJ here:
Federal prosecutors are weighing bringing child-pornography charges against former congressman Anthony Weiner over sexually explicit exchanges he allegedly had with a 15-year-old girl, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Weiner, a New York Democrat, is being investigated by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which seized his electronic devices, including a laptop and a cellphone, as part of the probe.
Attorneys for Mr. Weiner have had discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan in hopes of dissuading them from bringing charges, or at least from bringing the most serious one: production of child pornography, which carries a 15-year mandatory minimum prison sentence upon conviction.
These types of discussions can indicate both sides are trying to reach an agreement in which the defendant pleads guilty in exchange for a less-severe charge.
The high-profile criminal probe into Mr. Weiner upended the final days of the 2016 presidential race. Less than two weeks before election day, FBI Director James Comey disclosed that FBI agents had discovered a laptop with emails that might be related to the probe of a private email server used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. The emails turned out to have been on a laptop used by Mr. Weiner and his now-estranged wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton.
Don’t expect for anyone to go easy on Weiner. He did help Hillary lose the election, and I’m pretty sure she is still pissed and is working behind the scenes to send this asshole away for a very long time.
