Anthony weiner who is he

Disgraced congressman-turned-felon Anthony Weiner — who spent 18 months in federal prison after a string of sexting scandals over several years, including a crime inextricably linked to the last presidential election — is starting over. In an email blast Monday, Weiner, 56, promoted the company's countertops based on the colors of local sports teams like the Islanders, the Knicks and the Mets, The New York Times reported.

The company, IceStone, is a recycled-glass company that says it's built on "giving the Earth and its people second chances" — including its employees. The company's website states that they "hire the homeless, refugees and train the formerly incarcerated and ensure that everyone gets paid a living wage and has access to subsidized health insurance and a voice in the company. The latest career turnaround for the former New York congressman — in a life of success and abject failure, downfalls and reversals — comes after he spent a year and a half in federal prison for sending explicit photos of himself to a year-old girl.

He pleaded guilty in to a charge of transmitting sexual material to a minor. His estranged wife, longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, filed for divorce hours after his plea before withdrawing the filing from the court system in early in order to settle the divorce privately , citing the fact she wished to protect their young son.

Weiner now lives on the same floor in the same building as Abedin, 44, and their son, according to the Times , though the paper notes they live apart. No one could understand why she stayed — not even the Clintons, although they never said so explicitly. She told Weiner in that she wanted a separation, but they still lived together.

Outsiders tutted, but he made life easier for her. Abedin was extremely busy working for Clinton, now secretary of state and, imminently, presidential nominee. He was happy to stay home and look after their son while Abedin travelled the country. Anyone who has been married with kids will know that, for pragmatic purposes, you sometimes tolerate more than you should.

A month after Hillary was named the Democratic nominee in the election, Weiner called Abedin. He told her the New York Post was publishing a picture of him and Jordan. She assumed it would be a paparazzi photo of the two of them in the park. It was a photo taken by Weiner showing himself aroused and in bed, and next to him lay their sleeping toddler son, and he had sent it to a woman on the internet.

Abedin threw him out of their apartment and publicly announced their separation. Just one of those things would drive most people to a nervous breakdown. How on earth did she not collapse? Things were about to get even worse for Abedin. A few weeks later, it was alleged that Weiner had been sexting a year-old girl — a federal offence.

Maybe he was addicted to self-destruction, or even public shame. She nods emphatically. The election was less than two weeks away.

Within days, Comey cleared Clinton , but the damage had been done. Do I believe it was a factor? I ask how she felt when President Trump thanked Comey after winning the election. Almost exactly a year after that, Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison. Before he was incarcerated, the two of them attempted to file for divorce, but because of the enormous media interest, Abedin reluctantly withdrew the petition.

They are currently finalising details of their divorce. She had expected to spend that year working as chief of staff to the first female president; instead, she was shuttling her son to prison for visits with his father in a country that was enacting a so-called Muslim ban , and she still laughs at the dystopian absurdity of it.

Were she and Hillary bitter after the election? How has she explained that photo of him lying in bed next to his father?

After Weiner was released, and registered as a sex offender , he got an apartment in the same building as Abedin, to make things easier for Jordan.

This remains the status quo. In , after he told Abedin he was dating again, she did the one thing she had always resisted: she looked through his old phone. With a therapist, they then went through a disclosure process, in which he told her everything. Knowing the truth at last helped her to shake off the anger, the shame and the resentment, and to move on.

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