A powerful former North Dakota lawmaker has pleaded guilty to traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor. Ray Holmberg was indicted in October 2023.
On Friday, the pretrial services officer filed a report saying Holmberg hadn’t met those conditions.
She wrote that he was verbally reprimanded and reminded of his pretrial release conditions after he left his residence once and also visited an adult novelty store, each without approval. He also “continuously” accessed the internet for unapproved reasons and did not allow updates and maintenance to the monitoring software on his cellular device, she said.
Lock the fucker up. He’s 80. He’s gonna be dead before he’s adequately punished. He’s already proving it.
Because even out of power he has a lot of power. I don’t think you spend however many years (25? I read it hours ago) making laws without picking up some owed favors along the way. Also, his cronies don’t wanna see him go down because it would mean that they could go down for their corrupt shit if they ever got found out in the future. Everyone involved has a shared interest in protecting his ass.
That’s just my very cynical take on it. There could be an actual, good, legitimate reason. But there’s probably not.
Lock the fucker up. He’s 80. He’s gonna be dead before he’s adequately punished. He’s already proving it.
Why was he not detained immediately when he breached any one of those requirements?
Because even out of power he has a lot of power. I don’t think you spend however many years (25? I read it hours ago) making laws without picking up some owed favors along the way. Also, his cronies don’t wanna see him go down because it would mean that they could go down for their corrupt shit if they ever got found out in the future. Everyone involved has a shared interest in protecting his ass.
That’s just my very cynical take on it. There could be an actual, good, legitimate reason. But there’s probably not.