Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Anthony Weiner 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 the Brooklyn borough of New York.

It’s not immediatel­y clear when Mr. Weiner was transferre­d and where he’s staying now, but Mr. 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 Mr. Weiner’s lawyer didn’t respond to emails seeking comment Sunday.

Mr. Weiner began serving a 21-month prison sentence at the Federal Medical Center Devens, located about 40 miles west of Boston in Ayer, Mass., in November 2017.

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

His final fall came in 2017 after prosecutor­s say he sent a series of sexually explicit messages to a North Carolina high school student. Mr. Weiner pleaded guilty to transferri­ng obscene material to a minor.

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