Anthony Weiner Denies He Spent $43,000 in Campaign Cash to Investigate Who Tweeted Those Pictures
Anthony Weiner Denies He Spent $43,000 in Campaign Cash to Investigate Who Tweeted Those Pictures of His Junk
By Anna Merlan
Even as we were processing the latest details of Weinergate Redux last week, new problems were brewing in Camp Weiner. Over the weekend, as the Times first reported, Anthony Weiner's campaign manager abruptly quit. It's almost impossible to figure out why 30-year-old Danny Kedem might have felt the need to jump ship, isn't it? It may possibly have something to do with the fact that his candidate's penis apparently requires fresh air, direct sunlight, and the gazes of women other than his wife in order to thrive.
But while Weiner was busy telling reporters that Kedem's departure is a non-issue, he also had to make time to fight off another, more interesting potential scandal. The Daily News alleged on Sunday that back in 2011, after Weiner accidentally tweeted the Boxer-Briefed Boner Heard 'Round the World, he then hired a private company to investigate who had "hacked" his Twitter. Even though, you know, no one actually had.
Daily News reporter Greg B. Smith found that in 2011, just after the scandal broke, Weiner paid $43,100 to T&M Protection Services, an "integrated security" firm that also performs forensic data investigations. They promise their clients that they can "discreetly discover the facts surrounding suspected dishonesty through electronic investigation," which must have been real easy in this case. Everybody probably got home in time for lunch. (T&M declined to tell the Daily News what they'd been hired for or what their investigation found.)
Smith also reports that records show Weiner's campaign paid law firm BakerHostetler $93,350 for legal services between January 2010 and December 2012. Weiner spokesperson Barbara Morgan told the paper, "The Weiner campaign hired lawyers and other professionals as part of responding to the many official and media inquiries before and after his resignation."
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