Posted on 08/09/2024 12:55:29 PM PDT by ransomnote
A former North Dakota State Senator pleaded guilty today to traveling to Prague, Czech Republic, to have commercial sex with minor boys.
According to court documents and facts established in public proceedings, Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks, took approximately 14 trips to Prague between 2011 and 2021 to engage in commercial sex acts with minor boys. During some of these trips, Holmberg used the alias “Sean Evans” while staying at a brothel where young boys provided commercial sexual services. Holmberg also went to a public park in front of the main train station in Prague to procure sex from minor boys.
Holmberg also used the “Sean Evans” alias to communicate with friends about the trips. In those communications, Holmberg discussed “his twink,” and commented that “no one is ever too young . . . remember Prague.” He emailed another friend a link to a known brothel in Prague named the “Villa Mansland,” and wrote “[l]et’s go, this summer . . . The boys rent at around $60 (sex is extra).” Later in the communications, Holmberg wrote “it will be decadent but oh so much fun bro. What happens in Prague—Stays in Prague.” In other emails, he requested at least one of the employees at the brothel to find him a “kid.”
Holmberg pleaded guilty to one count of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Puhl for the District of North Dakota; and Special Agent in Charge Jamie Holt of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) St. Paul made the announcement.
HSI and the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigations are investigating the case.
Trial Attorney Charles Schmitz of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Puhl for the District of North Dakota are prosecuting the case.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Justice Department. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
Updated August 8, 2024
ND? D most likely
Let me know if there is a Go Fund Me set up. I’d like to buy the rope...
Walz also allowed Pelosi to say - classroom and battlefield , Walz makes me proud. Or something similar.
“BTW how did he afford all those trips on a humble servants salary?”
It is often cheaper for us to fly from Houston to Hong Kong for family business than from Houston to Miami.
International flights are cheap.
Hotels and lodging in China are considerably less expensive too.
There are lots, and lots, of issues with Tim Walz. I don’t think this is one of them
“Commercial” sex?
There are a lot of reasons to suspect Walz of this stuff.
We had a bunch of threads on related topics yesterday—and a lot more is to be revealed.
Stay tuned....
This proves that US citizen’s are no such thing they are subjects. While the actions may be reprehensible where does the USA have the charter or legal standing to prosecute for actions in a sovereign foreign nation. If the activity was illegal in the Czech Republic wouldn’t they extradite the person back and bring charges against them. Czech age of consent is low like most of the EU it’s not 18 for sure. Brothel sounds state licenced as most are in the EU. So is the USA holding him to what age of consent there is no Federal age in the USA it’s a state’s right’s issue 36 US state’s have age of consent below 18. He is a creeper but under what international law is the USA operating to charge someone for their actions outside US territory that’s the real question and it should matter to every freedom loving person as it shows how rouge the Gov has gotten.
“ BTW how did he afford all those trips on a humble servants salary?”
Paid for by German NGO.
“ The trips were state-funded in cooperation with Atlantik-Brücke to “understand and integrate the various facets of international politics, business, academia and culture”.[27]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Holmberg
I stand corrected. Wish i was wrong about all the other weird things he’s done.
Americans are owned as slaves and treated as such.
You make an interesting point I don’t think I agree with. He plead guilty to traveling for these purposes. I’m not sure such a law is unconstitutional.
Maybe he should also be extradited to stand trial as you suggest.
I did find it odd that Homeland Security was involved.
“ At 9:30 a.m. on November 17, 2021, Holmberg’s Grand Forks condominium was searched by two special agents from the federal Department of Homeland Security (Daniel Casetta and Timothy Litzinger) and Detective Jennifer Freeman from the Grand Forks Police Department. ”
I don’t think you were corrected. You just asked a reasonable question.
45 years in office pretty much makes anyone a douchebag, no matter the party.
Any lobbyist that did business with the state would own the guy if they had a decent blackmail file on him.
Why does that matter. He was a sick SOB no matter what his politics are.
Republican. Was listed in another article or somewhere I saw it earlier.
He is a Q.
And he’s from CLIMAX North Dakota.
Can’t get funnier than that.
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