'I'm glad this chapter is behind me': Anthony Weiner says he hopes to get back to his family as he is released from Bronx halfway house after spending 21 months in custody for sexting a 15-year-old
- Weiner was released from a halfway house in the Bronx on Tuesday morning
- He was freed after serving 21 months in prison and in the halfway house
- In 2016, he exchanged explicit texts with a 15-year-old girl
- Weiner was jailed after DailyMail.com exposed their crude messages
- The-54-year-old will be registered as a level 1 sex offender for the next 20 years
- He and his wife Huma Abedin decided to divorce privately last January
- It is unclear where he will now; to her Manhattan home or to his parents in Brooklyn
- Since being freed from prison in February, Weiner has been touting a book deal and trying to find investors for a marijuana business
Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman, is officially a free man.
The 54-year-old was seen leaving a Bronx halfway house at 6am on Tuesday morning which marked the final day of his 21-month sentence for having illicit contact with a 15-year-old girl.
His messages to the girl, which included sexts and shirtless selfies, were exposed by DailyMail.com in September 2016.
On Tuesday, Weiner told reporters that he hoped to get back to my family and make up for some lost time.'
'I hope to be able to live a life of integrity and service, and I’m glad this chapter of my life is behind me,' he said before getting into a waiting car.
Anthony Weiner is shown leaving his Bronx halfway house on Tuesday morning. He was released from prison in February but is now officially a free man
He was released from prison in February but has been living in the halfway house since then.
Now, he must be registered as a level one sex offender for the next 20 years.
Because of his low-level designation, Weiner's information won't show up in the state's online sex offender registry but will be available via a toll-free telephone number.
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It is unclear where he will now go. He and wife Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Clinton's top aides, had filed for divorce but she has since withdrawn her request. They have decided to settle it privately.
Weiner's parents live in Brooklyn.
Since being released, Weiner has been touting a book deal and asking for investors for a marijuana business.
Within days of being released from prison, he was spotted at a coffee shop in Union Square trying to win business.
Weiner spoke briefly before getting into a waiting car. It is not clear now where he will now live
Weiner's release on Tuesday morning comes 21 months after he was jailed for exchanging illicit online content with a minor
Weiner was released from jail in February after he was sentenced to 21 months in November 2017 for sexting a 15-year-old girl. Shown are some of the shirtless selfies he sent her
The 15-year-old girl shared her story with DailyMail.com in 2016
A source told DailyMail.com of the meeting: 'Weiner was advising the other man on how to approach investors and said, ''Tell them you have this great venture and then be like, I know the perfect guy''.
Weiner's wife Huma Abedin (shown at the Met Gala) filed for divorce in 2017 but they withdrew the request last year to settle it privately
'Weiner appeared to be referring to himself and explaining how to get other money on board but conceal his involvement.'
He told one potential investor that the 'sexual stuff shouldn't matter'.
The 'stuff' he referred to were explicit text messages he exchanged with a 15-year-old girl while he was married in September 2016.
Among them was one text which read: 'I would bust that tight p***y so hard you would leak and limp for a week.'
He originally made contact with the girl on Twitter.
Since being released from prison in February, he has spent his days trying to get a book deal.
Sources told The New York Post last month that there was zero interest in it from publishers.
Wasting no time: Within days of being released from prison, Weiner met with a potential investor for a marijuana business at a coffee shop in Union Square (pictured)
The sexting scandal was revealed during the fever pitch of the 2016 presidential elections and was the reason James Comey, the former FBI director, reopened the case into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server days before the polls opened.
While investigating Weiner's sexts, law enforcement agents seized computers from his home including his wife's.
It revealed that she had been using the laptop to work on behalf of Clinton while she was Secretary of State.
Abedin has said nothing since the scandal broke. She and Weiner have one son together.
In May 2017, she filed for divorce but the pair withdrew it in January this year.
Weiner was held at the Devens Federal Medical Centra in Devens, Massachusetts, pictured
