Anthony Weiner Says His Actions ‘Crushed the Aspirations of My Wife’

Lawyers for Anthony D. Weiner, the former Democratic congressman whose lewd text exchanges with a teenage girl led to his prosecution and embroiled him in an F.B.I. investigation of Hillary Clinton before the presidential election, asked a judge on Wednesday night to spare him a prison sentence.

In asking that Mr. Weiner receive probation, his lawyers described his behavior as “inexcusable,” but cited his “remarkable progress” over the past year.

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