North Dakota State Senator Raymond Everett Holmberg

Once-powerful senator gets 10 years for sexually exploiting children in Europe

A former longtime North Dakota state senator is heading to prison for traveling to the Czech Republic about 14 times to have sex with underage male prostitutes, the Justice Department announced.

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Raymon "Ray" Everett Holmberg Wednesday to 10 years in prison for the trips he took between 2011 and 2021, where he stayed at a Czech brothel to have sex with adolescent boys, the Justice Department said in a Thursday release. Prosecutors said Holmberg, who was still a senator at the time of the visits, used the alias Sean Evans.