Anthony Weiner out of prison
Ex-rep. moves to NY halfway house
Disgraced former New York U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has been relocated from the Federal Bureau of Prisons medical center at Fort Devens in Ayer to a halfway house in his home state, according to the federal inmate locator.
The 54-year-old Democrat who nicknamed himself “Carlos Danger” is scheduled to be released from the Bureau of Prison’s New York Residential Reentry Management program May 14.
Attorney Arlo DevlinBrown, who represented Weiner in his federal “sexting” case, declined comment Sunday on his behalf. It was unclear when the move took place.
Weiner represented the 9th congressional district on Capitol Hill for seven terms, from 1999 to 2011.
He was sentenced in 2017 to serve 21 months in federal prison for transferring obscene material to a minor.
He pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual behavior online with a 15-year-old high school student via text messages and video chats.
The Bureau of Prisons contracts with halfway houses “to provide assistance to inmates who are nearing release,” the department’s website states, by providing “a safe, structured, supervised environment, as well as employment counseling, job placement, financial management assistance, and other programs and services.”
Weiner will be super- vised by federal authorities for three years upon his release, according to the terms of his sentence handed down by Judge Denise L. Cote in the U.S. District Court of Southern New York. He will be required to register as a sex offender, participate in an outpatient sex-offender treatment program and seek a full-time job.
He must also submit to monitoring of his computer use and online activities by the U.S. Probation Department.
Weiner is banned from attempting to contact the victim — even through a third party.
“My regret for my crime is profound,” Weiner told Cote in a 2017 letter. “I have endangered the well-being of a 15-year-old girl who reached out to me on the internet. My continued acting out over years crushed the aspirations of my wife and ruined our marriage. I am so deeply sorry for the harm I have done to her, and I live with the sorrow that I will never be able to fix that. I have an addiction, but I don’t have an excuse.”