FARGO – Ray Holmberg, once a powerful state legislator, admitted in federal court Thursday he took multiple trips to Europe with the intent to pay for sexual contact with children.
“The boys rent at around $60 (sex is extra),” Holmberg wrote in an email to a friend using the alias Sean Evans, according to prosecutors.
Holmberg, who served in the North Dakota Senate for 45 years, pleaded guilty to repeatedly traveling from Grand Forks to Prague, Czech Republic, for the purposes of engaging in commercial sex with adolescents under age 18.
In U.S. District Court on Thursday, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Puhl said Holmberg traveled to Prague 14 times between 2011 and 2021 to purchase sex with boys.
At least some of the trips Holmberg took to Prague were subsidized with taxpayer money, records indicate.
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A Republican senator from North Dakota has pleaded guilty to having sex with minors after flying to Europe using taxpayer money on several occasions.
Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks admitted in court on August 8 that he had sexual contact with young male masseuses during his multiple visits to the Czech Republic.
The disgraced public official added that while the victims had been paid by him at the time of the abuse, he did not know for certain how old they were.
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>FARGO – Ray Holmberg, once a powerful state legislator, admitted in federal court Thursday he took multiple trips to Europe with the intent to pay for sexual contact with children.
>“The boys rent at around $60 (sex is extra),” Holmberg wrote in an email to a friend using the alias Sean Evans, according to prosecutors.
>Holmberg, who served in the North Dakota Senate for 45 years, pleaded guilty to repeatedly traveling from Grand Forks to Prague, Czech Republic, for the purposes of engaging in commercial sex with adolescents under age 18.
>In U.S. District Court on Thursday, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Puhl said Holmberg traveled to Prague 14 times between 2011 and 2021 to purchase sex with boys.
>At least some of the trips Holmberg took to Prague were subsidized with taxpayer money, records indicate.
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[Former North Dakota lawmaker pleads guilty to traveling for sex with children](https://northdakotamonitor.com/2024/08/08/former-north-dakota-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-to-traveling-for-sex-with-children/)
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>A Republican senator from North Dakota has pleaded guilty to having sex with minors after flying to Europe using taxpayer money on several occasions.
>Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks admitted in court on August 8 that he had sexual contact with young male masseuses during his multiple visits to the Czech Republic.
>The disgraced public official added that while the victims had been paid by him at the time of the abuse, he did not know for certain how old they were.
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[Republican travelled to Europe 14 times for pedophilia.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13726157/Ray-Holmberg-North-Dakota-guilty-sex-minors-Europe.html)
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