Anthony Weiner, the serial sexting former US congressman, begins 21-month prison sentence
Anthony Weiner’s lawyer said his client likely exchanged thousands of messages with hundreds of women over the years
Former US Representative Anthony Weiner reported to prison Monday to begin a 21-month sentence for sexting with a 15-year-old girl.
Weiner was being held at the Federal Medical Centre Devens in Massachusetts, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said.
The facility in Ayer, about 64 kilometres west of Boston, has over 1,000 inmates at the medical centre and over 100 more at an adjacent minimum security satellite camp. It’s the same prison that once housed Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Weiner was sentenced in September by a judge who said the crime resulted from a “very strong compulsion.” At the time, a tearful Weiner said he was undergoing therapy and had been “a very sick man for a very long time.”
Amid a sexting controversy involving women, the New York Democrat resigned his US House seat in 2011 only to have new allegations doom his 2013 run for mayor.
