Weiner comes clean about photos

After a week of denials, Congressmember Anthony Weiner admitted Monday he sent lewd photos of himself and lied about being the victim of a hacker.
“I’m deeply apologetic,” said Weiner. “This was a very dumb thing to do, a very hurtful thing to do.”
Weiner stated he will not step down.
Following media reports that he sent a photo of his crotch to one of his Twitter followers, an indignant Weiner last week went on a media blitz claiming he was the victim of a prank. He claimed that while the photo sent may have been of him, he did not send it.
On the morning of Monday, June 6 pictures of a shirtless Weiner that he allegedly had sent a female follower were posted on biggovernment.com, the same web site that had posted the first photo.
Monday afternoon, at a press conference in Manhattan he admitted that he lied and had in fact sent the racy pictures.
When he realized that he accidentally posted the picture to Twitter instead of in a direct message he panicked and claimed he was hacked, Weiner said.
“It was a dumb thing to do to tell lies about it because it led to more lies,” he said.
Weiner said these inappropriate communications with six women dated back three years, but never resulted in a physical relationship.
The married congressmember became emotional when speaking about his wife of almost a year.
“My wife is a remarkable woman,” Weiner said, fighting back tears. “She is not responsible for any of this.”
Weiner said he and his wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have no intention of splitting up.
“She’s very unhappy and disappointed,” he said. Weiner said that he had discussed these relationships with his wife before their marriage, but she was not aware that he had sent the recently released photos.
Weiner, who is up for re-election next year and a potential mayoral candidate said right now he is not worried about elections.
“I understand my constituents may hold this against me,” he said, but added he hopes they look at his record of what he did for them in his official duties also.
But first Weiner is facing a House of Representatives Ethics Committee investigation. Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, said the situation disappointed and saddened her and she wanted to determine whether “any official resources were used or any other violation of House rules occurred.”