Anthony Weiner to Plead Guilty Following Sexting Probe

The charge carries a sentence of up to 10 years
Anthony Weiner, former U.S. Democrat Representative from New York, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016. Mr. Weiner, whose history of exchanging sexually explicit messages ended his political career, is expected to plead guilty Friday to a single count of transferring obscene material to a minor, according to people familiar with the matter.
Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose history of exchanging sexually explicit messages ended his political career, is expected to plead guilty Friday to a single count of transferring obscene material to a minor, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Weiner, a New York Democrat, turned himself in Friday morning to federal authorities and will enter a plea in Manhattan federal court around 11:00 a.m., a person familiar with the matter said.
The charge has no mandatory minimum prison sentence, but carries a sentence of up to 10 years. It is unclear whether he will be added to the sex offender registry, the person familiar said.
U.S. officials initiated an investigation into Mr. Weiner’s communications last fall, after the Daily Mail in the U.K. reported that Mr. Weiner had exchanged sexually explicit messages and photos with a girl in North Carolina who was 15 years old at the time.
The Wall Street Journal previously reported that earlier on in the investigation prosecutors were Weighing whether to charge Mr Weiner 

with more serious child pornography charges that would have carried substantial mandatory prison time.
As a Congressman, he represented a swath of Brooklyn and Queens in the House of Representatives, but resigned in 2011 after admitting he exchanged lewd messages and photos online with multiple women.
He attempted a political resurrection with a New York City mayoral bid in 2013, but his career in politics was ultimately extinguished after a fresh round of sexually explicit messages he had exchanged with another woman emerged in the midst of his campaign.
The high-profile criminal probe into Mr. Weiner upended the final days of the 2016 presidential race. Less than two weeks before election day, James Comey, the Federal Bureau of Investigation director at the time, disclosed that FBI agents had discovered a Laptop with email is that might be related to the probe of a private email server used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state. The emails turned out to have been on a laptop used by Mr. Weiner and his now-estranged wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton.
Two days before the election, Mr. Comey announced that the search of the laptop had turned up nothing to change investigators’ opinions that Mrs. Clinton shouldn’t be charged in the email investigation

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