Politics & Government

Weiner: New Explicit Messages are Real

Mayoral candidate, no stranger to scandal, confirms recent reports.

Anthony Weiner acknowledged Tuesday that a new set of online conversations — revealed by the gossip website thedirty.com — are genuine. 

The website posted screenshots of the conversations — from an anonymous source who claims that they were sexual in nature and occurred in 2012, a year after the scandal broke.

The conversations include a new online pseudonym alleged to belong to Weiner — Carlos Danger — which you will almost certainly see plastered across the front page of tabloids tomorrow. 

At the time of the scandal, Weiner said that not all of his explicit online conversations had come to light. He repeated that claim Tuesday afternoon according to published reports. 

"I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have. As I have said in the past, these things that I did were wrong and hurtful to my wife and caused us to go through challenges in our marriage that extended past my resignation from Congress," Weiner said in a statement. "While some things that have been posted today are true and some are not, there is no question that what I did was wrong. This behavior is behind me."

Weiner's statement contradict's the initial report that said the conversations are just a year old. 

Other mayoral candidates were quick to jump on the new information in the old scandal, including former City Councilman Sal Albanese, who said he was "calling for Anthony Weiner to do right by New Yorkers and withdraw from the race."


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