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Days Before Sentencing, Anthony Weiner Seeks Leniency

Elliott Hamilton

Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner is seeking a lenient sentence following his conviction for transferring obscene material to a minor. Both Weiner and his soon-to-be ex-wife Huma Abedin wrote letters to Judge Denise L. Cote of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York for consideration to lessen his sentence.

Weiner wrote the following in his five-page letter:

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