Republican former North Dakota state Senator Ray Holmberg on Monday signed an agreement to plead guilty in a federal court to charges that he traveled to the Czech Republic repeatedly to have sex with underage girls, the coda to a 45 year career in politics in the desolate state that ended in 2022 when he was caught texting a known child pornographer, the North Dakota Monitor reports.
The plea agreement drops the child porn counts for which Holmberg was indicted last year along with the charge of traveling with the intent to rape a minor for a series of trips he took to the Czech Republic between 2011 and 2016. Holmberg had served 45 years in the state Senate and chaired the appropriations committee at the time he was exposed as a pedophile. He may have appropriated himself the scratch needed to cover his vile sex vacations in eastern Europe as the AP found he spent at least $126,000 in state funds for travel over the last decade. The 79 year-old was a school counselor at his day job until he retired so who knows what the fuck else he might’ve done.