WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign was rocked on Friday after federal law enforcement officials said that emails pertinent to the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server were discovered on a computer belonging to Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide.

In a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said the emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, which law enforcement officials said was an F.B.I. investigation into illicit text messages from Mr. Weiner to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Mr. Weiner, a former Democratic congressman from New York, is married to Huma Abedin, the top aide.

Mr. Comey's letter said that the F.B.I. would review the emails to determine if they improperly contained classified information, which is tightly controlled by the government. Senior law enforcement officials said that it was unclear if any of the emails were from Mrs. Clinton’s private server. And while Mr. Comey said in his letter that the emails “appear to be pertinent,” the F.B.I. had not yet examined them. </s> Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman, is officially a free man.

The 54-year-old was seen leaving a Bronx halfway house at 6am on Tuesday morning which marked the final day of his 21-month sentence for having illicit contact with a 15-year-old girl.

His messages to the girl were exposed by DailyMail.com in September 2016.

On Tuesday, Weiner told reporters upon his departure that he hoped to get back to my family and make up for some lost time.'

'I hope to be able to live a life of integrity and service, and I’m glad this chapter of my life is behind me,' he said.

He was released from prison in February but has been living in the halfway house since then.

It is unclear where he will now go.

He and wife Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton's top aides, had filed for divorce bu she has since withdrawn her request.

The status of their relationship is unknown.

Since being released, Weiner has been touting a book deal and asking for investors for a marijuana business.

He told one potential investor that the 'sexual stuff shouldn't matter'.

The 'stuff' he referred to were explicit text messages he exchanged with a 15-year-old girl while he was married in September 2016.

Among them was one text which read: 'I would bust that tight p***y so hard you would leak and limp for a week.'

He originally made contact with the girl on Twitter.

Since being released from prison in February, he has spent his days trying to get a book deal.

Sources told The New York Post last month that there was zero interest in it from publishers.

The sexting scandal was revealed during the fever pitch of the 2016 presidential elections and was the reason James Comey, the former FBI director, reopened the case into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server days before the polls opened.

While investigating Weiner's sexts, law enforcement agents seized computers from his home including his wife's.

It revealed that she had been using the laptop to work on behalf of Clinton while she was Secretary of State.

Abedin has said nothing since the scandal broke. She and Weiner have one son together.

In May 2017, she filed for divorce but the pair withdrew it in January this year. </s> Huma Abedin has filed for divorce from former Rep. Anthony Weiner, a move she made prior to Weiner pleading guilty Friday to transferring obscene material to a minor, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

Abedin, a top aide to former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, was not present at Friday’s hearing.

A message left with a representative for Abedin seeking comment Friday morning was not returned.

At the hearing Friday, Weiner accepted responsibility for his conduct. “I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse,” he said through pauses and bouts of tears in an emotional statement. “I entered intensive treatment, found the courage to take a moral inventory of my defects, and began a program of recovery and mental health treatment that I continue to follow every day.”

As part of the plea agreement, Weiner, 52, will register as a sex offender and also will have to forfeit his iPhone, surrender his passport and continue mental health treatment. He is also barred from having any contact with the minor.

“Today, former Congressman Anthony Weiner admitted and pled guilty to sending sexually explicit images and directions to engage in sexual conduct to a girl he knew to be 15 years old,” acting US Attorney Joon H. Kim of the Southern District of New York said in a statement. “Weiner’s conduct was not only reprehensible, but a federal crime, one for which he is now convicted and will be sentenced.”

The government recommended between 21 and 27 months imprisonment, which Weiner’s counsel agreed to, though ultimately it is up to a judge to decide. </s> The FBI had been investigating the contact by Anthony Weiner, whose political career collapsed a few years ago because of his online indiscretions, with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

NEW YORK — The revelation Friday that the federal authorities found a batch of emails that may be related to its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server appears to be the latest fallout from an unlikely source: Anthony Weiner, a Democrat who once represented New York in Congress and ran for mayor.

The FBI had been investigating the contact by Weiner, whose political career collapsed a few years ago because of his online indiscretions, with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. On Friday, federal law-enforcement officials said emails related to the Clinton case had been found on at least one electronic device once shared by Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Clinton.

Here are key moments in Weiner’s long fall from grace.

Weiner’s descent in the public’s eye began in May 2011, when an explicit picture was sent out to the world from his Twitter account.

Weiner initially denied responsibility, saying he had been hacked. But the scandal refused to die down, as details about lewd exchanges the congressman had conducted with other women online trickled out. On June 16, he announced his resignation from Congress at a news conference in Brooklyn.

“I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused,” he said.

Weiner said he would join the race to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York in spring 2013, two years after his career had been all but written off.

There were some encouraging signs that Weiner was on his way to a political resurrection. He rose steadily in the polls and was doing well with fundraising early on.

But the emergence of more explicit online messages forced Weiner to admit that his habit of sending sexual images and text messages to female fans had continued at least a year after he left Congress. Weiner stayed in the Democratic primary despite calls to drop out, but he ended up receiving less than 5 percent of the vote.

Weiner’s wife, Abedin, said in August that the couple would separate after another revelation, this time in The New York Post, that he had continued to exchange illicit online messages with a woman. Amid a racy conversation with the woman, Weiner sent a photo of his crotch as he lay next to the couple’s 4-year-old son. The New York City Administration for Children’s Services opened an investigation into his treatment of the boy, Weiner later said.

Less than a month later, federal authorities issued a subpoena for records in the wake of new accusations published in another tabloid, DailyMail.com, that Weiner had engaged in sexually explicit conversations with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

The FBI said it was looking into new emails related to the Clinton case Friday, delivering a jolt to the presidential campaign just 11 days before the election. Federal law-enforcement officials said the emails that appeared pertinent to the Clinton case had been found after the FBI seized at least one electronic device once used by Weiner and Abedin. </s> Clinton campaign in crisis after FBI agents uncover Hillary emails among sexts to underage girls on Anthony Weiner’s phone.

The new Hillary Clinton emails uncovered by the FBI were discovered on electronic devices belonging to Huma Abedin and her husband, Anthony Weiner.

The devices were seized by the FBI as they investigate allegations Weiner sent illicit sexual messages to underage girls.

The New York Times reports that “The F.B.I. is investigating illicit text messages that Mr. Weiner sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The bureau told Congress on Friday that it had uncovered new emails related to the Clinton case — one federal official said they numbered in the thousands — potentially reigniting an issue that has weighed on the presidential campaign and offering a lifeline to Donald J. Trump less than two weeks before the election.“

Huma Abedin, Hillary’s closest aide, separated from her husband Weiner recently after it was revealed he conducted an online affair with an underage girl – the latest in a long line of scandals for the former congressman.

The FBI informed Congress that while analyzing Weiner’s phone agents had uncovered new Hillary Clinton emails related to the investigation into whether Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information.

The announcement has breathed new life into the Trump campaign – and proved the Republican nominee was eerily accurate with an old prediction. In a statement on his website immediately after the Abedin-Weiner split, Trump questioned Hillary’s judgement in allowing someone like Weiner into her circle of trust:

DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON HILLARY CLINTON’S BAD JUDGMENT

 

 “Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him. I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information. Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.” – Donald J. Trump

And previously, in an Aug. 3 tweet: </s> Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman, is officially a free man.

The 54-year-old was seen leaving a Bronx halfway house on Tuesday morning which marked the final day of his 21-month sentence for having illicit contact with a 15-year-old girl which DailyMail.com exposed.

He told Fox upon his departure that he hoped to get back to my family and make up for some lost time.'

'I hope to be able to live a life of integrity and service, and I’m glad this chapter of my life is behind me.

He was released from prison in February but has been living in the halfway house since then.

It is unclear where he will now go. He and wife Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton's top aides, are no longer together.

Since being released, Weiner has been touting a book deal and asking for investors for a marijuana business.

He told one potential investor that the 'sexual stuff shouldn't matter'.

The 'stuff' he referred to were explicit text messages he exchanged with a 15-year-old girl while he was married in September 2016.

Among them was one text which read: 'I would bust that tight p***y so hard you would leak and limp for a week.' </s> Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) on Friday pleaded guilty to sending obscene material to an underage girl.

“I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse,” he said, according to The New York Daily News.

“I apologize to everyone I have hurt,” Weiner added in his admission to the court. “I apologize to the teenage girl, whom I mistreated so badly.”

The Daily News reported that Weiner cried as he read a four-paragraph statement at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse.

Prosecutors said they would ask for 21 months to 27 months in prison for Weiner once his plea is entered. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.

Court documents indicated the plea deal was finalized on May 10, according to the Daily News.

Weiner, 52, was facing a single charge of transmitting obscene material to a minor. The charge carried a potential 10-year prison term.

“I knew this was as morally wrong as it was unlawful,” said Weiner, whose sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 8.

“I engaged in obscene communications with this teenager, including sharing explicit images and encouraging her to engage in sexually explicit conduct, just as I had done and continued to do with adult women.”

Investigators say Weiner, then 51, began exchanging illicit text messages with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina in January 2016. Weiner’s plea indicated the conducted occurred from that January and March.

The investigation into Weiner has been blamed in part for Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonTrump renominates 2 highest military officers 'West Wing' press secretary thinks Spicer should 'just quit' Clinton 'burst out laughing' at footage of Trump debate prep MORE’s loss in the 2016 presidential election to President Trump. The FBI announced in October it was renewing its investigation into Clinton's handling of classified material after Clinton emails were found on Weiner's laptop in the course of a separate investigation.

Weiner is married to Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Clinton. </s> Former congressman Anthony Weiner, whose penchant for sexting strangers online ended his political career and led to an investigation that upended the presidential race, will appear in federal court Friday to plead guilty to charges in connection with his online communications with a 15-year-old girl, officials said.

A law enforcement official said Weiner has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of transferring obscene material to a minor.

The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the criminal charges had yet to be filed publicly with the court.

Weiner was already in federal custody ahead of the court hearing, which was scheduled for 11 a.m.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan confirmed the court appearance but declined to immediately release additional details about the charges against the Democrat.

The FBI began investigating Weiner in September after the 15-year-old North Carolina girl told a tabloid news site, the Daily Mail, that she and the disgraced former politician had exchanged lewd messages for several months.

She also accused him of asking her to undress on camera.

The investigation led FBI agents to seize his laptop computer, which led to the discovery of a new cache of emails that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had sent to Huma Abedin, Weiner’s wife.

In late October, just days before the election, FBI director James Comey stunned the country by announcing that his agency was reopening its closed investigation into Clinton’s handling of State Department business on a private email server so it could analyze the newly discovered correspondence.

That inquiry was brief. Comey announced shortly before the election that the new emails contained nothing to change his view that Clinton could not be charged with a crime. But Clinton partly blamed her loss to Republican Donald Trump on Comey’s announcement.

Weiner, who represented New York in Congress from 1999 to 2011, resigned after revelations that he was sending sexually explicit messages to multiple women.

He ran for New York City mayor in 2013 and was leading several polls until it was revealed he had continued his questionable behaviour.

His failed mayoral bid is the subject of the documentary Weiner. </s> Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose penchant for sexting strangers online ended his political career and led to an investigation that upended the presidential race, pleaded guilty Friday to criminal charges in connection with his online communications with a 15-year-old girl.

Weiner pleaded guilty to a charge of transmitting sexual material to a minor and could get years in prison. He agreed not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months in prison. He was already in federal custody ahead of the court hearing.

The judge told him he would have to register as a sex offender.

The FBI began investigating Weiner in September after the 15-year-old North Carolina girl told a tabloid news site, the Daily Mail, that she and the disgraced former politician had exchanged lewd messages for several months.

She also accused him of asking her to undress on camera.

The investigation led FBI agents to seize his laptop computer, which led to the discovery of a new cache of emails that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had sent to Huma Abedin, Weiner’s wife.

In late October, just days before the election, FBI Director James Comey stunned the country by announcing that his agency was reopening its closed investigation into Clinton’s handling of State Department business on a private email server so it could analyze the newly discovered correspondence.

That inquiry was brief. Comey announced shortly before the election that the new emails contained nothing to change his view that Clinton could not be charged with a crime. But Clinton partly blamed her loss to Republican Donald Trump on Comey’s announcement.

Weiner, who represented New York in Congress from 1999 to 2011, resigned after revelations that he was sending sexually explicit messages to multiple women.

He ran for New York City mayor in 2013 and was leading several polls until it was revealed he had continued his questionable behaviour.

His failed mayoral bid was the subject of the documentary “Weiner.”
Law enforcement officials say the emails in question were found during the course of an investigation into illicit texts sent to a fifteen year old girl by former Congressman Anthony Weiner, on electronic devices formerly shared by Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin.