Weiner will set up his own firm to advocate for changes to the state constitution
By Raif Karerat
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is out of work again after just two months at New York public relations firm MWW.
According to a memo written by MWW’s founder, Weiner’s presence was too toxic due to the media presence he attracted.
The scandal-ridden former house representative has yet to shake off the stigma he garnered after a series of sexting scandals torpedoed his political career.
“It has become clear that a handful of people and a few media outlets continue to be fixated on Anthony, attempting to cause harm to him and by extension to our agency,” Michael Kempner wrote in the internal email obtained by the Daily News.
“He understands that his presence here has created noise and distraction that just isn’t helpful,” Page Six gleaned from the same memo.
Weiner, however, criticized the memo, saying he didn’t “express any of those sentiments” expressed by Kempner.
The fallout from Weiner’s hiring included the abrupt resignation earlier this month of Arthur Schwartz. A top exec at the firm, Schwartz quit after MWW put Weiner on its payroll as a public policy “expert,” sources said.
According to Kempner, Weiner will set up his own firm to advocate for changes to the state constitution and other issues “he cares deeply about.” Weiner’s new firm, Kempner continued, would focus on reforming New York state’s constitution.
It was recently revealed that State Department investigators opened a “criminal investigation” into Weiner’s wife and longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin in 2013 — but the Justice Department declined to pursue it, according to the New York Post.
The investigation focused on Abedin’s 2011 “babymoon,” where she flew to Europe with Weiner, before the birth of their child.
The State Department’s inspector general was investigating whether Abedin took proper leave on the trip and later on maternity leave. The agency continues to pursue a claim with Abedin to recover more than $10,000 in compensation, her attorneys confirmed last week.