Holmberg left. Stenehjem right. Photos provided by Sherburne (Minn.) County Jail, Office of Attorney General via the North Dakota Monitor)
(North Dakota Monitor) – Newly released call logs show the late Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem communicated with former Sen. Ray Holmberg as the lawmaker was being investigated for sex crimes, including calls the day Stenehjem sat for a law enforcement interview.
Yet Stenehjem only told law enforcement about one phone conversation with Holmberg, according to Attorney General Drew Wrigley, who succeeded Stenehjem after his January 2022 death.
“That’s a pretty troubling log,” Wrigley said late Friday after his office made the call logs public. “The attorney general was asked about contacts with Ray Holmberg. He said that he had spoken to him once, and that was not accurate.”
There also is evidence that Stenehjem and the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation knew years earlier about a sexual assault allegation against Holmberg but no criminal charges resulted from that report.
Holmberg was sentenced late last month to 10 years in federal prison for traveling out of the country with the intent to pay for sex with underage boys. That conviction largely resulted from a federal investigation that began in 2021.
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