The former congressman, imprisoned for sending lewd texts to a 15-year-old, was moved from a Massachusetts prison to a re-entry program in Brooklyn, records show.
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Anthony D. Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman, has been released from a federal prison in Massachusetts and moved to a re-entry center in Brooklyn to serve out the remainder of his sentence for exchanging lewd texts with a minor.
Mr. Weiner, whose sexting scandals ended his tenure in Congress and then doomed his bid for New York City mayor, is scheduled to be released on May 14, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records. Mr. Weiner, who served his first 15 months at Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Mass., was supposed to serve a 21-month sentence, but was granted an early release for good behavior.
Mr. Weiner’s lawyers declined to comment, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Weiner entered prison on Nov. 6,2017, and must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Mr. Weiner’s time in prison stemmed from a federal investigation into sexually explicit pictures he exchanged in 2016 with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.
