
A long-serving prominent former state senator out of North Dakota entered a guilty plea in federal court, admitting he traveled to Prague during his political tenure for the purpose of sexually abusing young boys. Ray Holmberg — a Republican lawmaker who served in North Dakota’s Legislative Assembly from 1997 until his June 1, 2022 resignation over allegations connecting him to another suspected child sex abuser – traveled about 14 times to the Czech Republic’s capital city where “young boys provided commercial sexual services” to the lawmaker, federal prosecutors said in...