NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner has stepped down from his job as the head of a Brooklyn-based countertop manufacturer amid the company’s transformation into a worker-owned cooperative.
Weiner, who became the CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yard-based IceStone in May 2020, announced the news on his LinkedIn page.
“The IceStone workers cooperative will not happen all at once and right away, but one thing it does not need is a Chief Executive Officer,” he wrote. “So I have stepped aside to turn my seat over to the men and women who will now be making the decisions.”
“I will be keeping my IceStone hard hat,” he added. “That may come in handy.”
The former congressman didn’t immediately say what his next career move would be.
Weiner stepped down from his congressional seat in June 2011 in the wake of a sexting scandal.
He ran for mayor of New York City in 2013, but his campaign imploded after news broke that he had continued sexting with other women — while married to then-Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin — after leaving Congress.
In May 2017, meanwhile, he pleaded guilty to sexting with a teenage girl.
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