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Davenport Alderman Pleads Guilty

Courtesy of the City of Davenport

A Davenport alderman has admitted lying to a federal grand jury last year. Tuesday 3rd ward alderman Bill Boom appeared in U.S. District Court in Davenport and pleaded guilty to making a false declaration before a grand jury. 

He's scheduled to be sentenced August 24th and faces up to five years in prison. He declined to comment after the hearing. 

Boom is serving his fifth term.  

A plea agreement says Boom testified before a federal grand jury in July in connection with a meth-amphetamine investigation. Boom admits in the agreement that he lied when he said he didn't know a former housemate used meth and that he hadn't given money to Joseph Allen Terry, who is awaiting sentencing on federal drug charges. 
 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.