Got the blame for Hillarys valgtap - released as a registered sexforbryter

NEW YORK (Dagbladet): The former kongressrepresentanten and ordførerkandidaten in New York, Anthony Weiner (54), was seen as a shooting star in The democratic party. As he was taken repeatedly to send seksualiserte nettmeldinger. In 2017, he was finally sentenced for having sent messages to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

the Career is over for the Democratic shooting star

Now join the american media - including CNN, the AP and the New York Times that he is released from the federal prison in Massachusetts and to zone the rest of the penalty in a so-called "halfway house" - a type of institution that among other things, to help convicts back into society.

Weiner risked up to 10 years in prison, but was sentenced to 21 months after having entered into an agreement with the prosecution. He began to zone the penalty verdict in november 2017, and must now register as a sexforbryter the rest of your life.

- Obscene communication

The former politician has now spent 15 months in prison, and is scheduled to drop out three months before the time due to good behavior. It means that he will be able to leave the institution in Brooklyn where he now lives 14. may.

I have done obscene communication with this teen. It included the sharing of explicit images and calls to her about the sexually explicit conduct, said Weiner himself when he entered into the agreement with the prosecution in may 2017.

the Investigation of sexmeldingene to Weiner also led to the police discovered the e-mails that belonged to Huma Abedin on the Pc he had used. Abedin married Weiner and Hillary Clinton's closest adviser during the presidential election campaigns in 2016.

CLOSE: Huma Abedin (t.v.) have had a very close relationship with Hillary Clinton since she worked for her as an intern in the 1990s. Photo: Jonathan Ernst//AFP Show more

It all led to that the then FBI chief, James Comey, notified the public that he had started a new scrutiny of Clinton's use of a private e-mail address.

- Caused a lot of pain

the Letter came a week before election day in november 2016, and Clinton herself has pointed to the Comeys announcement that one of the reasons why she lost against Donald Trump, according to the New York Times.

- Anthony had already caused so much smert. And now this, writes Clinton in his book "What Happened" about how she comforted a crying Abedin after the news became known.

Also the well-known statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight thinks it is probably the letter from Comey was decisive and cost the Clinton valgseieren.

Fall

Weiner was in congress from New York in twelve years. In 2011, claimed a student claimed that he had sent her an explicit photograph via Twitter.

He claimed first that his account had been hacked, but admitted later that inappropriate online conduct with at least six women while he was married to Abedin, who also at the time was Hillary Clinton's principal adviser. Weiner chose to resign from Congress.

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In 2013, he tried out at a political comeback by standing for election as mayor of New York city. But again, the when it became known that he with the alias Carlos Danger had sent explicit photos to at least one woman after he resigned from Congress.

finally, he ended with to get less than five per cent of the votes in the Democratic primaries.

Very sick

Weiners final fall came with the judgment in 2017.

- I have been a very sick man in a very long time, " said Weiner under the judgment and described himself as sexavhengig, according to AP.

Weiners own lawyer has stated that the former politician probably exchanged thousands of messages with hundreds of women over the years. When he was taken for messages with the underage girl, he should at once have communicated with at least 19 other women.

Abedin and Weiner were married in 2010, and Bill Clinton married the couple. In 2017 took Abedin out divorce, but the couple agreed to resolve the separation of the private of respect to his young son.