For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers

[garbon]

Jesus fucking Christ, are there any of the historical bad guys you don't root for?

Judas?

[Caliga]

Anthony Weiner to Plead Guilty to Resolve Sexting Inquiry
By BENJAMIN WEISER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUMMAY 19, 2017

Anthony D. Weiner, the former Democratic congressman whose sexting scandals ended his political career and embroiled him in a tumultuous F.B.I. investigation of Hillary Clinton before the election, is to appear in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Friday to enter a guilty plea.

The information has not been made public but was related by two people who have been briefed on the matter and asked not to be identified.

Mr. Weiner will plead guilty to a single charge of transferring obscene material to a minor, pursuant to a plea agreement with the United States attorney's office in Manhattan, one of the people said. Mr. Weiner surrendered to the F.B.I. early Friday morning.

The federal authorities have been investigating reports that, beginning in January 2016, Mr. Weiner, then 51, exchanged sexually explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

The plea covers conduct by Mr. Weiner from January through March of last year, the person said. A likely result of the plea is that Mr. Weiner would end up as a registered sex offender, although a final determination has yet to be made, the person added.

The charge carries a potential sentence of zero to 10 years in prison, meaning that Mr. Weiner could avoid prison. The ultimate sentence would be determined by a judge.

Reports of the federal investigation surfaced in September after a British newspaper, The Daily Mail, reported that Mr. Weiner had engaged in an online relationship with the girl, which included explicit messages sent over social media and suggestive texts.

It was during the investigation that the F.B.I. seized Mr. Weiner's electronic devices, including a laptop on which agents found a trove of emails to his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton. That discovery led to the surprise announcement in late October by James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director, that the bureau was conducting a new investigation into Mrs. Clinton's handling of official email, an inquiry that ended two days before the election, with no charges brought.

Mrs. Clinton recently attributed her election loss in part to Mr. Comey's announcement.

A defendant's decision to plead guilty, of course, is subject to change at the last minute. A representative of the United States attorney's office in Manhattan had no comment on the case.

The Daily Mail article said that Mr. Weiner began exchanging messages with the girl when she was a high school sophomore and that the messages indicated that Mr. Weiner knew that she was underage.

The newspaper, which did not identify the girl, said she did not want to press charges "because she believes her relationship with Weiner was consensual." The paper said that she and her father agreed to be interviewed "out of concern that Weiner may be sexting with other underage girls."

Mr. Weiner was forced to resign from Congress, where he represented parts of Queens and Brooklyn, in June 2011, not long after an explicit picture, sent from his Twitter account, became public. Mr. Weiner initially claimed that his account had been hacked but eventually admitted that he had lied and that he had sent the image and had inappropriate online exchanges with at least six other women.

An effort to resurrect his career progressed in 2013 as he began his candidacy for mayor of New York. But that, too, collapsed after the emergence of additional explicit online messages.

Mr. Weiner's marriage to Ms. Abedin fell apart after new suggestive text messages surfaced in August, including one with an image of Mr. Weiner's crotch as he lay next to the couple's son, who was 4.

WEINER.  Hee hee hee!

[Josephus]

Weiner's a dick.

[Valmy]

Guys like Weiner and Clinton have no business in modern politics where everything is public knowledge. You have to be a person who is either pathologically paranoid with your private life or so upright you have nothing to hide.

Guys like Spicey who never even looks at porn on the internet.

[HVC]

Guys like Weiner and Clinton have no business in modern politics where everything is public knowledge. You have to be a person who is either pathologically paranoid with your private life or so upright you have nothing to hide.

Guys like Spicey who never even looks at porn on the internet.

I don't trust those guys, they always do something weird in the end. We should just move to a European model of not caring who politicians screw (though weiner is special cause of the teeny aspect)

[Valmy]

We should just move to a European model of not caring who politicians screw (though weiner is special cause of the teeny aspect)

I don't know. I mean it was one thing when we theoretically knew they were screwing everybody but seeing their dickpics makes it hard to respect them. Surely even for Euros.

[HVC]

We should just move to a European model of not caring who politicians screw (though weiner is special cause of the teeny aspect)

I don't know. I mean it was one thing when we theoretically knew they were screwing everybody but seeing their dickpics makes it hard to respect them. Surely even for Euros.

Guess in euroland it would depend in the dick was circumcised.

I just find it weird they we freak out about the po0litican nailing the young intern, but are totally cool with lobbies bribing them. It seems so backwards to me.

[Valmy]

I just find it weird they we freak out about the po0litican nailing the young intern, but are totally cool with lobbies bribing them. It seems so backwards to me.

I don't think anybody is cool with either. Both are abuses of power. And both were just presumed to have gone on, but could be safely ignored. Now we get every dirty detail.

[celedhring]

Is Spain's worst kept secret that the now former king is a serial philanderer and nobody gives a shit. We had a conservative VP dump his wife and marry a 20 y/o while in office. And then divorce her. Honestly, as long as it's legal I don't care what public officials do with their dicks/cunts.

[garbon]

Is Spain's worst kept secret that the now former king is a serial philanderer and nobody gives a shit. We had a conservative VP dump his wife and marry a 20 y/o while in office. Honestly, as long as it's legal I don't care what public officials do with their dicks/cunts.

Any reason you opted for that offensive term?

[celedhring]

I thought dick and cunt were more or less equal in offensiveness? No offence intended then. Just deficient English.

[Valmy]

Is Spain's worst kept secret that the now former king is a serial philanderer and nobody gives a shit. We had a conservative VP dump his wife and marry a 20 y/o while in office. Honestly, as long as it's legal I don't care what public officials do with their dicks/cunts.

Personally all I care about is good governance.

Both ends of the political spectrum hate it here. Many leftists consider powerful men propositioning their underlings or whatever as basically rape because of the power differential. Many conservatives are big on traditional morality for politicians despite their recent support for Trump.

[Valmy]

I thought dick and cunt were more or less equal in offensiveness? No offence intended then. Just deficient English.

It is one of the most radically woman-hating word English has yet been able to produce. So naturally people use it all the time. But seriously if you are ever talking to an anglophone woman do not use this word unless you like indignant rage. For good reason.

[celedhring]

Fair enough. Apologies.

[Valmy]

Fair enough. Apologies.

No worries. Just wanting to make sure the language of the internet does not infiltrate your knowledge of English. People talk differently here.