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Stephen Rex Brown

Anthony Weiner gave his electronics to private firm as FBI probed sexting case

NEW YORK _ A newly unsealed search warrant for Anthony Weiner's electronics revealed he had turned the items over to a private investigative firm as the feds eyed his sexts with a minor.

The warrant, signed Sept. 26, 2016, in Manhattan Federal Court, shows that Weiner handed his iPad, Dell computer and iPhone over to Granite Intelligence as the FBI investigated him for an array of offenses relating to text exchanges with a 15-year-old girl.

Among the potential offenses listed on the warrant were transfer of obscene material to a minor and exploitation of a minor.

The former congressman had "transferred" the electronics to the firm three days prior to the date of the warrant, according to the paperwork.

Weiner pleaded guilty May 19, 2017, to sexting with the minor.

Representatives of the Manhattan-based investigative firm did not respond to a request for comment.

Weiner's attorney Arlo Devlin-Brown did not respond to an email.

The disgraced Democrat is serving a 21-month sentence in the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Mass.

"I have a sickness, but I don't have an excuse," he said in court.

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