A North Dakota school boards group has returned $142,000 to the state and ended its role with a teacher exchange program after charges last fall against a former North Dakota lawmaker accused of traveling to Europe with the intent of paying for sex with a minor. The North Dakota Ethics Commission announced the action on Tuesday.
FILE - North Dakota Sen. Ray Holmberg, R-Grand Forks, speaks on the Senate floor at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., in November 2021. A North Dakota school boards organization has returned over $140,000 to the state and ended its role in a teacher exchange program months after an indictment was unsealed against the former state lawmaker, who traveled to Europe on the state funds and later was accused of traveling to Prague with the intent of paying for sex with a minor. BISMARCK, N.D.
The association reached an informal resolution as to a complaint against it about the program, the ethics panel said. Under that resolution, the association agreed to end any future involvement with the Global Bridges program. The complaint is closed. State law makes ethics complaints confidential. “The trips would continue and the wouldn’t have given back the money and none of this attention would have occurred had Ray Holmberg not done what he is alleged to have done in Prague,” said Martinson, who added he is still the Global Bridges program director. The association did not consult with him about deciding to return the money, he said.
“It’s really not just Sen. Holmberg. There might be other issues that come up as people inquire even further, and they would just as soon, I would think, want to get out of that sort of scrutiny and difficulty,” said Mathern, who lauded the Ethics Commission for the process “at least to look at some of these things closer.”
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