NYPD 'Looking Into' Anthony Weiner's Sexting with 15-Year-Old Girl

NEW YORK, NY — Anthony Weiner now has police and federal authorities to deal with in his ever-expanding sexting scandal.

An NYPD spokesperson confirmed to Patch they were "looking into it" when asked about Weiner's text exchanges with a 15-year-old girl, first reported by The Daily Mail. Meanwhile, CNN is reporting federal authorities have issued a subpoena for the former New York congressman's cell phone. The office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara declined to comment.

Weiner, 51, reportedly exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a high schooler for months, beginning in January. He sent her photos of himself partially clothed, complimented her on her body and described detailed schoolgirl fantasies to her, some of which involved rape, the Mail reported. The two never met.

Weiner has said this all could be a hoax and says he has a letter from the girl in which she declares, "I catfish people." Weiner showed the Associated Press an email in which she allegedly takes back her story.

“Our online chats were never inappropriate,” the email said. “I wanted to publish my story. He was the best candidate to pin the story to. The story needed a hoax to ride on.”

His latest dalliance began before he was separated from his wife, Huma Abedin, however. Abedin announced she was leaving Weiner on Aug. 29 after "long and painful consideration and work on my marriage." At that time, Weiner was caught up in a sexting scandal that even involved a photo of him shirtless in bed with his infant son. That misdeed cost him his marriage, as well as political commentary positions with the New York Daily News and NY1.

Before the August report, Weiner had supposedly cleaned up his act after two previous sexting scandals. The first scandal took place when Weiner accidentally tweeted a photo of himself in underwear while he was still a congressman. After first saying he had been hacked, Weiner admitted he had meant to send the photo privately to a woman and resigned from Congress in June 2011.

The second scandal took place while Weiner was running for mayor of New York City in 2013, when he sent explicit photos to a 22-year-old woman named Sydney Leathers. Weiner didn't drop out of the race, and his wife stood by him that time, but he received just 4.94 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary.

Weiner represented the Ninth Congressional District in southern Brooklyn and Queens from 1999 to 2011.

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