No, Really: Lawmaker Busted For Sexting With Woman From Weiner Scandal

Sydney Leathers, who engaged in online sex chats with Democratic mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner last summer, tries to enter his election gathering place at Connolly's Pub in midtown Tuesday, September 10, 2013 in New... Sydney Leathers, who engaged in online sex chats with Democratic mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner last summer, tries to enter his election gathering place at Connolly's Pub in midtown Tuesday, September 10, 2013 in New York. Weiner surprisingly entered the race in May after being in political exile since resigning from Congress in 2011 upon admitting to lewd online exchanges with women who were not his wife. (AP Photo/Jin Lee) MORE LESS
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In a tabloid-worthy twist, a Democratic lawmaker in Indiana has been busted for sexting with the same woman who brought down former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) two years ago.

Indiana state Rep. Justin Moed (D) admitted on Tuesday that he sent sexts to Sydney Leathers, the woman who sexted with Weiner in 2013, the Indianapolis Star reported Tuesday night.

Moed, who is engaged and planning a September wedding, apologized in a statement to the Indianapolis Star.

“I am truly sorry I have hurt the ones I love most with my poor judgment. I am committed to rebuilding trust with my family and my community. This is a private matter and I ask for it to be treated as such. I apologize to my constituents and to everyone I have let down,” he wrote in the statement.

The New York Post initially reported last week that Leathers exchanged sexts with an unnamed lawmaker. Leathers then confirmed to Fox411 that she sexted Moed after TheDirty.com reported that Moed responded to one of Leathers’ ads seeking a sexual partner.

According to Fox411, Moed sent graphic sexual texts to Leathers using the Twitter handle “Bitch Boy.” The sexting relationship started when Moed responded to Leathers’ Twitter post in February in which she said she was looking for a “new, legitimate #findom slave. Must actually be willing to spend money or you are useless to me.”

A source also gave Fox411 a receipt showing that Moed purchased gifts for Leathers.

Leathers told the New York Post that she was shocked when she found out she had been sexting with another lawmaker.

“I’m a little speechless,” she said. “I Googled him and found out he’s a lawmaker. Apparently only politicians can pick up on my pheromones.”

She said that Moed was “into some really freaky stuff.” Leathers added that she hoped their relationship wouldn’t cost him his job.

“Is he displaying poor judgment by sexting me of all people? Obviously,” she told the Post. “But should sexual situations define politicians? They are human, after all.”

Following the sexting scandal with Anthony Weiner, Leathers began appearing in X-rated videos.

In the trailer for her first X-rated video, Leathers identified herself as the woman who had a sexting relationship with Anthony Weiner.

“I’m Sydney Leathers. Anthony Weiner and I had a ‘sexting’ relationship for several months, and that came out in the press, so here I am,” Leathers says in the video. “We had phone sex several times a week while this was going on. We did send each other pictures. They were pretty much all nude.”

Leathers has returned to school and is working toward a degree in radio and TV, according to the Indianapolis Star.

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  1. She’s a menace!!

  2. She said that Moed was “into some really freaky stuff.” Leathers added that she hoped their relationship wouldn’t cost him his job.

    Gosh, she sure does come across as someone who’s really concerned about that.

  3. How. Stupid. Can. You. Be?

  4. You know something…I don’t care. Hell, Lord Patrick Ashdown, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats in Britain had an affair with a woman, was caught and all they did was mock him as Paddy Pantsdown. I mean, it wasn’t as if the guy was caught trying to smuggle pornography illegally across the border or strangled to death while wearing fishnet stockings, a garter and a pair of women’s underwear! It’s not as if his mistress was also the mistress of a moffioso. So, honestly, it’s time to really just forget about these kinds of sordid affairs.

  5. She must be pretty irresistible, and I must admit, with a name like Sydney Leathers, I’m intrigued…

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