Santa Fe New Mexican

Former Congressma­n Anthony Weiner gets released from prison

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AYER, Mass. — Disgraced former Congressma­n Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison after being convicted of having illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl in 2017.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows the 54-year-old New York Democrat is currently in the custody of its Residentia­l Re-entry Management office in Brooklyn, N.Y.

It’s not immediatel­y clear when Weiner was transferre­d and where he’s staying now, but Weiner will have to register as a sex offender and spend three years on supervised release under the terms of his sentence.

The prison bureau, federal prosecutor­s in New York and Weiner’s lawyer didn’t respond to emails seeking comment Sunday.

Weiner began serving a 21-month prison sentence at the Federal Medical Center Devens, located in Ayer, Mass., in November 2017.

The bureau website shows Weiner is slated to complete his sentence May 14, a few months earlier than scheduled because of good conduct in prison.

A once-rising star in the Democratic Party who served nearly 12 years in Congress, Weiner had a dramatic fall from grace after he sent a lewd picture of himself to a college student over Twitter in 2011.

Weiner resigned from Congress that year, but has been the subject of numerous sexting scandals since then.

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