Should politician Anthony Weiner get prison for sexting teen?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Former New York congressman Anthony Weiner could get up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to send obscene messages to a 15-year-old girl. But are his repeated online sex infractions — including his infamous underwear tweet — just symptoms of a sickness that should be treated, not punished? Nancy Grace and Alan Duke look at Weiner’s case in this episode.

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0:00.0	A photo of an anonymous man's bulging underwear was tweeted from Congressman Wiener's account
0:09.7	to be clear the picture was of me and I sent it.
0:12.4	This grace former Congressman Husband to long time and powerful Hillary Clinton adviser
0:17.1	Huma Abedin.
0:18.1	I love him.
0:19.3	I have forgiven him.
0:20.7	In 2013, during a comeback effort as Iran for mayor Wiener was caught for a second time
0:26.2	sexting with women under the alias Carlos Danger.
0:29.8	This is car story with Nancy Grace.
0:32.7	Anthony Wiener caught in yet another sexting scandal.
0:36.2	Sexting a young woman 15 years old.
0:39.2	Abedin said I have made the decision to separate from my husband.
0:42.8	Huma Abedin is crawling right back to Anthony Wiener.
0:45.4	Source to say the breakup was more for the optics for the Clinton campaign.
0:50.4	Transferring obscene material to a minor he will plead guilty.
0:54.0	The prosecutor is saying 21 to 27 months in prison.
0:58.6	Does it never end with this guy?
1:02.6	I mean, many people think he single handedly brought down the Democratic Party and let Donald
1:11.1	Trump skip into the White House jubilantly.
1:17.3	Now I don't talk about politics because I hate politics.
1:21.1	I think Republicans and Democrats and Greens and everybody just lie through their teeth.
1:27.0	So I hold my nose and vote and never reveal my vote.
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