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Weiner Spent $45K To Investigate Twitter Hacking Claim He Made Up

Hasn't dropped out of race for New York Mayor

Reason Staff | 7.29.2013 10:20 AM

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Serial sexter Anthony Weiner paid a private eye nearly $45,000 in campaign cash to investigate his lie that a hacker posted a crotch shot on his Twitter feed, campaign spending records show.

Weiner's brazen attempt to cover his tracks occurred shortly after Memorial Day weekend in 2011, when his first sexting scandal erupted and he went into furious spin control trying to save his career in Congress.

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