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Former North Dakota State Sen. Holmberg indicted, pleads guilty to child sex tourism [prev. pleads not guilty]

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Ray Holmberg, who was North Dakota’s – and one of the country’s – longest-serving state senators until he resigned last spring, has been indicted on federal charges of travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity and receipt of child [imagery]. He was arrested Monday morning in Grand Forks and appeared in a federal courtroom in Fargo Monday afternoon. Holmberg pleaded not guilty to the two counts against him.

The indictment against him claims Holmberg traveled to the Czech Republic for the purpose of engaging in sex with a minor, and that he knowingly received child [youknowwhat].

Last spring, the Fargo Forum reported that Holmberg had been communicating by text message with a man serving time in the Grand Forks County jail for child [yep] charges. That man, Nicholas Morgan Derossier, pleaded guilty to seven counts of possession and distribution of child [imagery] in federal court last month. [Holmberg was a state senator at that time, and resigned after this incident.]

The Republican legislator was first elected to his senate seat, serving Grand Forks’ District 17, in 1976.
 

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He will probably die in prison. Considering his age and/or health.

He might have spent more time in prison if the previous Attorney General had not been protecting him.

Wayne Stenehjem deleted voicemails, ‘obstructed’ child sex crime investigation into Ray Holmberg, AG says

North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said his predecessor did not disclose to federal investigators that he received three calls from Holmberg both before and after his interview with agents.​

 
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