Weiner hires lawyer after Twitter incident

Townhall Staff

May 31, 2011 3:58 PM May 31, 2011

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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is chalking up the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account over the weekend as a prank, but he has nonetheless hired a lawyer to explore pressing civil or criminal charges in the incident.

On Friday night, a close-up picture of a man's underwear was tweeted from Weiner's account. The picture was visible to all of the congressman's tens of thousands of followers but addressed specifically to a Seattle college student.

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