'HARD TIME' FOR WEINER
Feds want 21 to 27 months in jail
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday urged a stiff sentence for Anthony Weiner, revealing how the perverted ex-pol sexted with a North Carolina girl last year despite repeatedly being told she was underage.
The teen let Weiner know over and over how young she was, saying she was a high-school student, was getting her learner’s permit, had “parents that wouldn’t approve of some of the things” she did and liked “older guys,” “[b]ut that’s illegal,” according to court papers.
At one point, Weiner “correctly observed, ‘You are young,’ ” in a message he sent the girl via the anonymous instant-messaging app Kik, according to the feds,
During three video chats on Skype in February 2016, she also “made clear that she was not just a minor — she was, in fact, only 15 years old,” according to court papers.
“That did not stop Weiner,” the feds wrote.
“During the latter two Skype sessions, on February 18 and 23, 2016, and in a Snapchat communication on March 9, the defendant used graphic and obscene language to ask the Minor Victim to display her naked body and touch herself, which she did.”
Weiner, 53, used the messaging app Confide, too, to send the teen an “obscene message” that described “what he would do to her, if she were 18,” prosecutors said.
“Part and parcel of these disturbing — and criminal — exchanges, the defendant also sent the Minor Victim adult pornography,” according to the feds.
Weiner, who has a 5-year-old son with his estranged wife, longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, broke down in tears when he pleaded guilty in May to a charge of transferring obscene material to a minor.
The serial sexter — who formerly masqueraded online as Carlos Danger — faces up to 10 years in the slammer at his scheduled sentencing on Monday.
Both Weiner and Abedin last week filed letters asking Manhattan federal Judge Denise Cote to spare him a prison sentence so he can continue caring for their child.
Weiner also claimed that sex-addiction therapy had made him into a new man, insisting: “I’m different now.”
But the feds said Weiner has shown “a dangerous level of denial” and needs to be locked up for 21 to 27 months “to truly effect specific deterrence.”
Prosecutors added that Weiner’s professed rehabilitation echoed his response to the sexting scandals that forced him to resign from Congress in 2011 and torpedoed his comeback bid during the 2013 mayoral race.
“On prior occasions, as here, Weiner has followed the same pattern: he initially denied his conduct; he suffered personal and professional consequences; he publicly apologized and claimed reform,” prosecutors Amanda Kramer and Stephanie Lake wrote.
“Yet he has, on multiple occasions, continued to engage in the very conduct he swore off, progressing from that which is selfdestructive to that which is also destructive to a teenage girl — a minor the law recognizes as needing protection.”
The court filing further noted Weiner’s hypocrisy in having cosponsored, as a Democratic congressman from Queens, 2007 legislation to force convicted perverts to list their e-mail and instant-message addresses on the National Sex Offender Registry.
“In public remarks in support of the bill, the defendant recognized that ‘the Internet is the predator’s venue of choice today,’ ” court papers say.