Anthony Weiner spent $45000 of campaign funds investigating own racy messages Campaign spending records showed the sum had been paid to private investigators in 2011, when Mr Weiner found himself at the centre of his first "sexting" scandal, the New York Daily News reported. In an attempt to cover his tracks, he pledged an inquiry into how the images ended up in his Twitter feed. "They'll be looking into whether someone had my password," he told CNN at the time. He later admitted he himself had tweeted the shot - a close-up of his crotch - while trying to send it as a private message. The scandal forced him from Congress but after pronouncing himself a changed man Mr Weiner joined New York's mayoral race earlier this year. However last week Mr Weiner was forced to admit that he had continued to engage in such behaviour after a 23-year-old to whom he had sent racy images came forward.