Others who knew of Holmberg’s conduct are under investigation

(KFGO) – Attorney General Drew Wrigley has revealed that other people who may have known about the conduct of former state lawmaker Ray Holmberg remain under investigation.

Holmberg, a Grand Forks Republican, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of traveling to Europe more than a dozen times over 10 years to have sex with teenage boys.

Wrigley says he doesn’t know whether additional charges may be filed.

“I have commitments from the FBI to continue investigating matters of obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and things along those lines,” Wrigley says. “We take all of that very seriously. We take that seriously in cases the public’s not watching very closely. To me, that goes closely to the heart of what you’re doing. If you’ve got people out there trying to polish up witnesses, trying to obstruct justice, remove evidence, change evidence, or what-have-you, the system collapses.”

Holmberg has reached a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney’s Office where he admitted to traveling to the Czech Republic to have illicit sexual activity. The maximum sentence is 30 years in prison.

The agreement calls for a sentence of between three and fours years in prison.

Holmberg spent nearly 50 years in the Legislature before he retired in 2022 after it was revealed that he had exchanged dozens of text messages with a man who pleaded guilty to having child pornography, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.