Weiner campaign paid private eye $45,000 to investigate own 2011 Twitter ‘hacking’ lie, reports show
The ‘hacking’ never happened — Weiner later admitted to sending the racy pics himself — but his furious attempt at damage control included an expensive investigation by T&M Protection services.
BY GREG B. SMITH / NEW YORK DAILY NEWSPUBLISHED: SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2013, 2:00 AMUPDATED: SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2013, 2:00 AM
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In 2011, the Weiner campaign paid an investigations firm nearly $45,000 who had "hacked" the congressman's Twitter account and sent out racy photos, but it turned out the perp was Anthony Weiner himself.
Serial sexter Anthony Weiner paid a private eye nearly $45,000 in campaign cash to investigate his lie that a hacker posted a crotch shot on his Twitter feed, campaign spending records show.
Weiner’s brazen attempt to cover his tracks occurred shortly after Memorial Day weekend in 2011, when his first sexting scandal erupted and he went into furious spin control trying to save his career in Congress.
He maintained that he had been victimized — and promised an investigation to get to the bottom of how it happened.
“They’ll be looking into whether someone had my password,” he told CNN.
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