Disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner has finally found something he can do without screwing it up. 
 
 Nearly a year after he began his 21-month prison sentence for sexting with an underage girl, Weiner, 54, is set to be released early for good conduct. 
 
 Weiner — who has failed at being a husband, at sex rehab and at politics because of his uncontrollable urges — has managed to be a model inmate at the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Mass., according to the federal Bureau of Prisons. 
 
 Prison records show he is scheduled to be released in May 2019, three months ahead of his scheduled release date in August 2019. 
 
 There is no parole in federal prison, but inmates can earn up to 54 days off each year they serve for good conduct. 
 
 If the Queens Democrat ends up getting sprung early, it will be his first success in close to a decade. Weiner’s dramatic and seemingly never-ending fall from grace kicked off in 2011, when he resigned from Congress after it emerged he had been sending photos of his privates to women online. 
 
 In 2013, he lost his bid to become NYC’s mayor when it emerged he had been continuing his sexting with strange women through the pseudonym “Carlos Danger.” 
 
 Weiner didn’t hit rock bottom, however, until he admitted in court last year to sexting with a high school girl — despite knowing she was a minor. 
 
 His long-suffering wife, long-time Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, filed for divorce hours after he pleaded guilty in court. 
 
 Weiner begged for probation at his September 2017 sentencing, calling himself “a very sick man” as he wept. 
 
 His lawyer, Arlo Devlin-Brown, did not immediately return a request for comment. ||||| Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner leaves Federal court, Friday, May 19, 2017, in New York. Weiner pleaded guilty to transmitting sexual material to a minor. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose penchant for sexting strangers ended his political career and sparked a probe that upended the presidential race, pleaded guilty Friday to a sex charge, tearfully apologizing for communications with a 15-year-old girl that he said destroyed his "life's dream in public service." 
 
 Weiner, who could go to prison, pleaded guilty to a single count of transmitting obscene material to a minor. He admitted exchanging online messages with the girl beginning in January 2015 and "sharing explicit images and encouraging her to engage in sexually explicit conduct." 
 
 "I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse," he said. 
 
 In court, the 52-year-old former Democratic congressman paused repeatedly as he fought back tears and tried to compose himself. He said he knew the texting was "as morally wrong as it was unlawful." 
 
 Pleading to the charge, which requires him to register as a sex offender, could bring a sentence of up to 10 years. But Weiner is likely to serve a much shorter term if he is sentenced to prison. He signed a plea agreement with prosecutors in which he agreed not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months in prison. His lawyer can request leniency at a sentencing scheduled for Sept. 8. 
 
 Wearing his wedding ring and a dark blue suit with a maroon tie, Weiner read from a prepared statement after U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska addressed him: "Tell me what you did, sir." 
 
 He said he "compulsively sought attention from women who contacted me on social media" beginning with his service in Congress and continuing through the first half of last year. 
 
 "I engaged with many of them in both sexual and nonsexual conversation," he said. "These destructive impulses brought great devastation to my family and friends and destroyed my life's dream in public service. Yet I remained in denial even as the world around me fell apart." 
 
 Weiner said he began getting mental health treatment in the fall, when he said he "came to grips for the first time with the depths of my sickness." He said he continues to follow the treatment daily. 
 
 "I had hit bottom," he said. "Through treatment I found the courage to take a moral inventory of my defects." 
 
 Weiner apologized to "everyone I have hurt," including the girl he "mistreated so badly." 
 
 Finished speaking, he wiped his eyes with tissues. 
 
 Weiner was already in federal custody ahead of the hearing, which lasted less than a half hour. Afterward, he shook hands with prosecutors, telling them: "Thanks, guys. I appreciate your service." 
 
 He then went down the courthouse elevator surrounded by his lawyers and court officers and left the building. He said nothing to reporters. His wife, Huma Abedin, was not in court. 
 
 Abedin, a top aide to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton last year, separated from Weiner in September after revelations he had sent more sexually charged messages online. 
 
 That same month, the FBI began investigating Weiner after the North Carolina girl told the news website DailyMail.com that she and Weiner had exchanged lewd messages for several months. 
 
 She also accused him of asking her to undress on camera. As part of his plea, Weiner agreed to forfeit his iPhone. 
 
 The investigation led FBI agents to seize his laptop computer, which led to the discovery of a new cache of emails that Clinton had sent to Abedin. 
 
 In late October, just days before the election, FBI Director James Comey stunned the country by announcing that his agency was reopening its closed investigation into Clinton's handling of State Department business on a private email server so it could analyze the newly discovered correspondence. 
 
 That inquiry was brief. Comey announced shortly before the election that the new emails contained nothing to change his view that Clinton could not be charged with a crime. But Clinton partly blamed her loss to Republican Donald Trump on Comey's announcement. 
 
 Weiner, who represented New York in Congress from 1999 to 2011, resigned after revelations that he was sending sexually explicit messages to multiple women. 
 
 He ran for New York City mayor in 2013 and was leading several polls until it was revealed he had continued his questionable behavior. His failed mayoral bid was the subject of the documentary "Weiner."
– Anthony Weiner must report to prison by Monday, ABC News reports. The 53-year-old former congressman was sentenced to 21 to 27 months in prison after pleading guilty in May to sexting a 15-year-old girl. At the time, he told a judge that he has been "a very sick man for a very long time," according to ABC 7. The Hill notes Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 after sending lewd photos of himself to women. In the current case, prosecutors say Weiner sent the victim pornography and asked her to take off her clothes and stimulate herself on Skype. He was facing up to 10 years in prison. Weiner is set to be incarcerated at Federal Medical Center, Devens, in Massachusetts. The facility provides mental health care and sex offender treatment to more than 1,100 inmates.