Anthony Weiner set for prison stint for sexting conviction
Anthony Weiner
A sexting compulsion that cost Anthony Weiner  his  seat in Congress and a chance to be New York City's mayor is about to cost  him   his  freedom too.
 Weiner   a Democrat  is scheduled to surrender by 2 p.m. Monday at Devens Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts to serve a 21-month sentence for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl.
 Weiner  was sentenced in September by a judge who said  Weiner 's crime resulted from a "very strong compulsion."  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   Weiner  resigned  his  House seat in 2011 only to have new allegations doom his 2013 run for mayor.
Last year  a criminal probe into his sexting with a high school student intruded into Democrat Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House. Then-FBI Director James Comey announced in late October 2016 that he was reopening the probe of Clinton's use of a private computer server after emails between Clinton and Weiner's wife  Huma Abedin â formerly Clinton's closest aide â were found on  Weiner 's laptop computer.
Abedin and  Weiner  are in divorce proceedings.
At sentencing in Manhattan federal court   Weiner  attorney Arlo Devlin-Brown said his client likely exchanged thousands of messages with hundreds of women over the years and was communicating with up to 19 women when he encountered the teenager.
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  [TGT] a Democrat  is scheduled to surrender by 2 p.m. Monday at Devens Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts to serve a 21-month sentence for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl.
  [TGT] was sentenced in September by a judge who said  Weiner 's crime resulted from a "very strong compulsion."   [TGT] said   [TGT]   was undergoing therapy and had been "a very sick man for a very long time."
Amid a sexting controversy involving women    [TGT] resigned   [TGT]   House seat in 2011 only to have new allegations doom his 2013 run for mayor.
Last year  a criminal probe into his sexting with a high school student intruded into Democrat Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House. Then-FBI Director James Comey announced in late October 2016 that he was reopening the probe of Clinton's use of a private computer server after emails between Clinton and Weiner's wife  Huma Abedin â formerly Clinton's closest aide â were found on  Weiner 's laptop computer.
Abedin and   [TGT] are in divorce proceedings.
At sentencing in Manhattan federal court    [TGT] attorney Arlo Devlin-Brown said his client likely exchanged thousands of messages with hundreds of women over the years and was communicating with up to 19 women when he encountered the teenager.