\nThe Government respectfully submits this memorandum in connection with the sentencing of Anthony Weiner, which is scheduled for September 25, 2017,\u00a0following his guilty plea to transferring obscene material to a minor<\/strong>. Although the defendant\u2019s self-destructive path from United States Congressman to felon is indisputably sad, his crime is serious and his demonstrated need for deterrence is real.\u00a0The non-custodial sentence that Weiner proposes is simply inadequate; his crime deserves time in prison.\u00a0<\/strong>For the reasons set forth below, the Government respectfully requests that Court sentence Weiner to a term of imprisonment within the range of 21 to 27 months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWeiner’s sentencing will take place almost exactly a year after the New York Post published a story about him sexting with another woman who wasn\u2019t his wife. Weiner said he would plead guilty in May after prosecutors brought charges following revelations that he also sexted with the 15-year-old, whom he met over Twitter. Both the girl and her father told the Daily Mail that Weiner knew she was underaged when they were corresponding.<\/p>\n
And just to make sure that Weiner does end up in jail, the US Attorney for the district of New York, Joon Kim, laid out in vivid – and gruesome detail – the circumstances of his pedophilia. As taken from the prosecutor memorandum:<\/p>\n
\nIn the evening of January 23, 2016, a 15-year-old girl (the \u201cMinor Victim\u201d) initiated contact with the defendant by sending him a direct message on Twitter. Over the next several hours, the Minor Victim and Weiner exchanged a series of messages, ranging from the mundane to the provocative. Early in the exchange,\u00a0the Minor Victim revealed to Weiner that she was in high school.\u00a0<\/strong>Despite knowing he was communicating with a high school student, Weiner participated in increasingly suggestive exchanges, telling the Minor Victim, among other things, that he thought she was \u201ckinda sorta gorgeous.\u201d Their communications continued the next morning on Facebook messenger, then moved to Kik, and at some later point, Confide and Snapchat. The latter three all are messaging and photo-sharing applications that delete messages and images once viewed.<\/p>\nAs January turned to February, their intermittent exchanges grew more lascivious. This was despite the fact that there could be no reasonable doubt in Weiner\u2019s mind that he was chatting with a minor \u2013 in addition to having revealed that she was a high school student, the Minor Victim told Weiner that she was getting her learner\u2019s permit. She explained in Facebook chats that she has \u201cparents that wouldn\u2019t approve of some of the things\u201d she does, and that she likes \u201colder guys,\u201d \u201c[b]ut that\u2019s illegal.\u201d The defendant correctly observed, \u201cYou are young,\u201d in one Kik message.<\/p>\n
Against that backdrop, between February 17 and 23, 2016, Weiner and the Minor Victim participated in three video chat sessions on Skype.<\/p>\n
There is no dispute that the Minor Victim repeatedly suggested that she and the defendant participate in video chats on Skype. Those suggestions were not, however, one-sided. For example, Twitter records reveal that during their first exchanges the night of January 23, 2016, at some point after the Minor Victim had suggested that they Skype, the defendant said \u201cLeave the complex stuff for Skype.\u201d That night as well, after a suggestive exchange, the defendant said \u201cMaybe Skype someday.\u201d Thus, although it was the Minor Victim who initially sought out Weiner, as the Government readily concedes, Weiner immediately responded to the Minor Victim\u2019s overture and willingly participated in the offense conduct thereafter.<\/p>\n
It was then that the Minor Victim made clear that she was not just a minor \u2013 she was, in fact, only 15 years old.\u00a0That did not stop Weiner. During the latter two Skype sessions, on February 18 and 23, 2016, and in a Snapchat communication on March 9, 2016, the defendant used graphic and obscene language to ask the Minor Victim to display her naked body and touch herself, which she did.\u00a0<\/strong>He also sent an obscene message to the Minor Victim on Confide, describing what he would do to her, if she were 18. Part and parcel of these disturbing \u2013 and criminal \u2013 exchanges, the defendant also sent the Minor Victim adult pornography<\/strong>. In approximately March 2016, after several months of intermittent exchanges, communications between the defendant and Minor Victim largely stopped. The Minor Victim made efforts to re-engage, but was met with limited responsiveness.<\/p>\nThe instant conduct was revealed to the public and law enforcement in September 2016, when the Daily Mail published the Minor Victim\u2019s account of her communications with Weiner after she participated in a paid interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And some further commentary from the proscuting attorney:<\/p>\n
\nThis is not merely a \u201csexting\u201d case. The defendant did far more than exchange typed words on a lifeless cellphone screen with a faceless stranger. With full knowledge that he was communicating with a real 15-year-old girl, the defendant asked her to engage in sexually explicit conduct via Skype and Snapchat, where her body was on display, and where she was asked to sexually perform for him. That offense \u2013 transmitting obscenity to a minor to induce her to engage in sexually explicit conduct by video chat and photo \u2013 is far from mere \u201csexting.\u201d Weiner\u2019s criminal conduct was very serious, and the sentence imposed should reflect that seriousness.<\/p>\n
The defendant claims that he \u201cresponded to the victim\u2019s request for sexually explicit messages not because she was a teenager, but in spite of it.\u201d While the Government does not contend that Weiner engaged in inappropriate sexual exchanges with other minors or that he is a pedophile, his professed ambivalence towards the Minor Victim\u2019s age is belied by the defendant\u2019s own statements to the court-appointed evaluator during his evaluation. Moreover, the defendant has acknowledged an interest in legal, adult, teen-themed pornography. In the context of this admitted interest, his insistence that he deserves a lighter sentence because the Minor Victim\u2019s age meant nothing to him\u00a0rings hollow.\u00a0<\/strong>Even if the Court were to credit Weiner\u2019s claim of ambivalence to the Minor Victim\u2019s age, that purported ambivalence is part of the problem. That his victim was a minor \u2013 and therefore his conduct a serious crime \u2013 did not deter Weiner from forging ahead.<\/p>\nThe defendant\u2019s submission repeatedly makes note of the 15-year-old Minor Victim\u2019s various motives for communicating with Weiner and her profit from sharing those communications with the media. While careful not to cast blame on the Minor Victim outright or disclaim ultimate responsibility for his crime, he relies, in part, on the circumstances of their communications in arguing for a sentence of probation. That argument should be rejected, and Weiner should be sentenced for what he did \u2013 not what motived the Minor Victim.\u00a0Weiner, a grown man, a father, and a former lawmaker, willfully and knowingly asked a 15-year-old girl to display her body and engage in sexually explicit conduct for him online. Such conduct warrants a meaningful sentence of incarceration.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nDefense lawyers had portrayed the girl as an aggressor, saying she wanted to generate material for a book and possibly influence the presidential election.\u00a0<\/strong>Prosecutors responded that Weiner should be sentenced for what he did, and his victim’s motives should not influence his punishment. A defense lawyer declined to comment Wednesday.<\/p>\nWeiner, 53, said in a submission last week that he’s undergoing treatment and is profoundly sorry for subjecting the North Carolina high school student to what his lawyers called his “deep sickness.”<\/p>\n
In a plea bargain, Weiner agreed not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months. Prosecutors said the sentence should fall within that span, and they noted that Probation Office authorities had recommended a 27-month prison term.<\/p>\n
He will be sentenced to prison next Monday.<\/p>\n
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