First on Fox: Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner received surprising donations from his campaign for the New York City city council by ex-wife Huma Abedin and her sister, I have Abbedin, despite his ex-wife who said in 2021 that Weiner’s sex scandals “almost killed her”.
Huma Abedin donated $ 175 to Weiner’s campaign March 13, and her sister, Heba Abedin, donated $ 150 December 29, 2024, a Fox News Digital Review from Campaign finance reports in New York City revealed.
Weiner launched his latest campaign for NYC City Council, A position he held from 1992 to 1998 before the controversy derailed his political career, in December 2024. Weiner was chosen to represent the 9th congress district of New York in 1998 and resigned in 2011 after he had placed a photo of himself in his underwear on social media.
The incident was followed by years of sexual scandals and Weiner was accused of transferring obscene material to a minor in May 2017 after sexing a 15-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, right, received donations from his campaign for the New York City city council by ex-wife Huma Abedin and her sister, Heba Abbedin, according to campaign funding reports. (Getty)
Huma Abedin, the old Hillary Clinton assistant, said CBS “Sunday morning” In 2021, that anger almost killed her husband’s sex scandals.
Anthony Weiner saw dinner with alienated woman Huma Abedin
“I can’t live in that space anymore. I tried that. It almost killed me,” Abbedin told Norah O’Donnell.
Abedin said that on the same day she applied for a divorce on the same day that Weiner argued guilty and was sentenced to prison. The former couple, which their son co-parenting, was spotted in 2023 when attending the Inner Circle Charity Show in Ziegfeld Theater in Midtown Manhattan.
President Joe Biden, on the right, presents the presidential medal of freedom, the highest civil honor of the nation, to Alex Soros on behalf of his father, George Soros, in the eastern room of the White House on January 4, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cneta)
By July 2024, Abedin announced on social media that she was engaged to Alex Soros, chairman of Open Society Foundations and son of billionaire Megadonor George Soros. They are expected to get married this summer.
After he had resigned at the congress in 2011, Weiner sexting remained under the pseudonym ‘Carlos Danger’. The most important recipient, Sydney Leathers, who was 22 at the time, claimed that the former legislator called himself an argumentative, constantly horny middle -aged man. “
Anthony Weiner, a former Democratic Congressman, leaves the federal court in New York on September 25, 2017, after he was convicted for up to 21 months for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty images)
Weiner tried his first political comeback in 2013 with a mayor run, but his reputation was damaged by new revelations of explicit photos that Weiner had sent under the pseudonym. Weiner was captured in another sexting scandal in 2016, which led to His indictment. On one image that Weiner sent, he was in bed with his young son.
More claims arose in that year that Weiner had a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina Sext and his laptop was seized. Researchers found e -mails that are relevant to Clinton’s classified document scandal that dominated the 2016 elections.
Weiner later checked in rehabilitation for sex addiction. In 2017, his federal indictment ruined another bid for mayor. He was released in 2019 and was commissioned to register as a sex offender.
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Abedin and Weiner did not respond to FOX News Digital’s request to comment by the deadline of this article.
Michael Dorgan and Charles Creitz from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
