NEW YORK — The revelation Friday that the federal authorities found a batch of emails that may be related to its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server appears to be the latest fallout from an unlikely source: Anthony Weiner, a Democrat who once represented New York in Congress and ran for mayor. The FBI had been investigating the contact by Weiner, whose political career collapsed a few years ago because of his online indiscretions, with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The bureau told Congress on Friday that it had uncovered new emails related to the Clinton case — one federal official said they numbered in the thousands — potentially reigniting an issue that has weighed on the presidential campaign and offering a lifeline to Donald J. Trump less than two weeks before the election.“

Huma Abedin, Hillary’s closest aide, separated from her husband Weiner recently after it was revealed he conducted an online affair with an underage girl – the latest in a long line of scandals for the former congressman. Weiner’s descent in the public’s eye began in May 2011, when an explicit picture was sent out to the world from his Twitter account. “I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused,” he said. Weiner’s wife, Abedin, said in August that the couple would separate after another revelation, this time in The New York Post, that he had continued to exchange illicit online messages with a woman. Federal law-enforcement officials said the emails that appeared pertinent to the Clinton case had been found after the FBI seized at least one electronic device once used by Weiner and Abedin.
Law enforcement officials say the emails in question were found during the course of an investigation into illicit texts sent to a fifteen year old girl by former Congressman Anthony Weiner, on electronic devices formerly shared by Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin.