The young woman who is alleging that Anthony Weiner initiated a months-long, sexually explicit online relationship with her says the New York City mayoral candidate repeatedly sent her lewd messages and made lofty promises that were ultimately broken. 
 
 Nik Richie — owner of the gossip website that published graphic accounts of Weiner’s alleged online interactions with a young woman — connected a POLITICO reporter Tuesday with a person who Richie said is the woman in question. She would not identify herself, and POLITICO has not independently confirmed her identity. 
 
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 Richie said in an email Wednesday that the woman is “planning on coming out to [the] public soon, my guess is tomorrow.” 
 
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 She spoke with POLITICO for about 25 minutes on Tuesday afternoon, hours before Weiner held a news conference with his wife, Huma Abedin, and admitted to sexting with additional women online even after he resigned his seat in Congress two years ago. 
 
 The woman said in the interview that when her conversations with Weiner began last summer, she was 22, but she declined to provide other details about her background. 
 
 Screenshots of their alleged exchanges on Facebook and other social media forums were posted on the website TheDirty.com, causing Weiner to hold a press conference on Tuesday in which he said that “while some things that have been posted today are true and some are not, there is no question that what I did was wrong.” 
 
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 According to the woman’s account, the two began communicating on Facebook last summer, after Weiner sent her a Facebook “poke.” The woman had several mutual Facebook friends with Weiner after spending time in Washington interning and visiting family, she said. She also said that she first messaged him in 2011, after the former congressman resigned in the wake of a scandal involving a tweeted lewd picture of him. 
 
 “I had messaged him, he poked me, we started talking a lot, became Facebook friends and started talking on other, more private channels,” she said. “It quickly got sexual, obviously. Which is strange. I was disappointed in him [in 2011], I thought he was a better man.” 
 
 Within days of connecting on Facebook, the conversations took a tawdry turn as they began to communicate in other ways, including on the site Formspring, and on email, she said, adding that online he sometimes operated under the name “Carlos Danger.” They also engaged in phone sex frequently, she said, and she never doubted that he was the former congressman. When POLITICO sought to verify her account by asking whether she had his phone number, she said he always called from a private number. 
 
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 “I’m the nerdy type who watched C-SPAN,” she said. “I know that man’s voice.” ||||| Scribbles from NSFWCORP Staff 
 
 I had been interning on Anthony Weiner's current mayoral campaign for three weeks when he decided to introduce himself. "Come on, everybody! All interns! Anthony wants to say hello." We crowded into Weiner's private office in his new 5th Avenue campaign headquarters, where he stayed reclined in a cheap, black leather chair. 
 
 "I always say that on every campaign, there are one or two volunteers who really make a difference," he began. (There were roughly twenty of us in the room.) "So I just want to let you know that no task is too small, and the work you're doing is important and it is appreciated." He continued to speak for a few minutes, reiterating this point over and over. 
 
 "Okay!" Weiner said loudly, though not enthusiastically. "I'm going to go around the room now and ask you your name and a fact about yourself, and then I'm going to go back around and repeat your name to you." A member of the campaign staff looked on, nervously. "I'm great at this," Weiner said. 
 
 I stood second in line, next to "Stephanie, I speak three languages. I love romance languages." 
 
 Weiner nodded at me to introduce myself, "Hi, I'm Olivia" 
 
 "You were at the Gay Pride event with us in Brooklyn, right?" 
 
 "Yeah -" 
 
 "Thanks for helping out, really appreciate it. Next?" 
 
 "Okay!" Weiner had heard from us all. "Now I'm going to repeat your names back to you. I'm really good at this," he confirmed. 
 
 He paused and squinted his eyes at Stephanie. 
 
 "Monica?" 
 
 "Stephanie." 
 
 We all laughed nervously. Monica is an interesting intern name to pick out of the air. (Weiner's wife, we should remember, works for Hillary Clinton.) 
 
 "Oh, that's right. Okay, next." He paused again and squinted his eyes at me. 
 
 "Monica!" 
 
 More nervous laughter. "Olivia." 
 
 After getting the following three interns' names wrong, he gave up and released us back into the main office. 
 
 A little while later, I walked down the hallway and bumped into Weiner. 
 
 "Monica?" 
 
 "Still Olivia!" 
 
 (Update: Anthony Weiner's communications director responds -- calls Olivia a "cunt". Really.) 
 
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– Yep, he went there: In an email sent to supporters yesterday, Anthony Weiner blamed his post-resignation sexting incident on ... problems with his wife, Huma Abedin. "It was a terrible mistake that I unfortunately returned to during a rough time in our marriage," he wrote, according to the New York Post. At a press conference later, he explained, "I think that a lot of people see the resignation was the end of the challenges my wife and I, my family faced, and it wasn’t. It was part of something that needed to get resolved and frankly it hadn’t been." But now, of course, "these things are behind me," he added. And, uh, yeah, he went here as well: In a piece on NSFWcorp, Olivia Nuzzi writes that after three weeks as an intern for Weiner's mayoral campaign, Weiner decided to introduce himself to all the interns. He asked them to state their names and a fact about themselves, then he would go around the room repeating their names. He called the first two female interns, incorrectly, "Monica"—and he later ran into Nuzzi in the hallway and called her "Monica" again, she claims. "Interesting intern name to pick out of the air," she writes. "Weiner's wife, we should remember, works for Hillary Clinton." As for Weiner's latest sexting pal, she's now talking to Politico. The money quote: "He once described himself to me as an argumentative, perpetually horny middle-aged man, and that’s completely correct."