Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Quiet Holiday - Congressman Takes Heat Weinergate

The six-term Democratic congressman struggled to play defense seeing that gossips swirled, carrying on with that will insist that this illicit tweet a below-the-waist photo of any person around bulging dull boxer-briefs has been the job on the hacker. His repetition labeled the particular event nothing at all much more as compared to "a distraction."

She insisted this while she is a "fan" with Weiner, she'd under no circumstances achieved him or her around person.

Cordova did disclose your lady after routed a new twitter referring to "my boyfriend @Rep-Weiner," however insisted your woman certainly not has been their "wife, girlfriend or maybe mistress,"

In fact, your woman said, she'd jokingly made "similar assertions" about some other public figures, such as President Obama; Boston Celtic defend Ray Allen and also soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo.

She said that motive in the man who pranked your ex appeared to be "defaming" Weiner."

And the lady put in she has for no reason had an "inappropriate exchange" having Weiner.

Cordova initiated pursuing Weiner on Twitter in the period his very own tweets until now placed your ex within Seattle, and based on your girlfriend statement, this individual started "following" the woman's on the site, too.

Despite the particular quiet getaway weekend, Capitol Hill ended up being humming concerning what immediately turned called Weinergate.

Some DC wonks were skeptical involving Weiner's hacking history in addition to questioned the particular loss of a new law enforcement survey related to your criminal offenses seeing that serious seeing that Internet identity theft, a Washington insider said.

The uncertainty seemed to be also feasted by Weiner's determination to help immediately delete that submitted picture and some other photography linked to the account.

Weiner's rep, Dave Arnold, advised The Post yesterday, "This is that will become a new distraction, and also we could possibly not likely to allow it to needlessly come to be one.

"Anthony's company accounts were clearly hacked. He will not find out the particular human being referred to as because of the hacker, along with we will often be advisory on which actions to consider next."

Weiner, that symbolizes regions of Brooklyn along with Queens, was to you're wedding past summer in order to Huma Abedin, a previous tool to help Hillary Rodham Clinton.

leonard.greene@nypost.com

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