• Second death, more accusations sharpen focus on homosexual Ed Buck, Cal

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    Democratic Party megadonor Ed Buck faces new questions this week
    after Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives opened an
    investigation into the second death of a man -- identified by a
    medical examiner as 55-year-old Timothy Dean -- at Buck's home
    in less than two years, and a third man came forward with an
    account of what he described as his drug-fueled interactions
    with the well-connected Californian.

    Deputies in West Hollywood responded early Monday morning to a
    report of a person not breathing at Buck's home, and county
    firefighters pronounced the man dead. The cause of the death
    will be determined by the coroner, according to Nicole Nishida,
    a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s department.

    But, critics are questioning whether Buck's race — both men
    found dead were black — or if his wealth or political ties to
    the Democratic Party influenced an initial investigation of the
    64-year-old who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to a
    slew of liberal causes and candidates over the years, including
    Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and a who's who of top California
    politicians.

    “He definitely has not been cooperative, as his attorney says.
    He refused to answer any questions when I tried speaking with
    him,” Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide
    Investigator Quilmes Rodriguez told Fox News via email Wednesday
    night.

    Protesters call for prosecution of Ed Buck after second man
    found dead at the Democratic donor's homeVideo
    Officials said the investigation of the second death will
    include a review of Gemmel Moore's death in 2017. After a slow-
    moving investigation that went on for months, Buck was not
    charged.

    “On July 27, 2017 there was a death investigation of a male
    adult, Gemmel Moore, who was determined to have overdosed at the
    same location. Mr. Edward Buck was present during both
    incidents,” said a recent statement from the Los Angeles County
    Sheriff's Department.

    The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the
    “admissible evidence is insufficient to prove beyond a
    reasonable doubt” that Buck gave Moore drugs or is responsible
    for his death in a document dated July 26 obtained by Fox News.
    An autopsy report said Moore died of a methamphetamine overdose.

    Meanwhile, on Wednesday, The Daily Mail published an account by
    Jermaine Gagnon, a 28-year-old who claimed he narrowly escaped
    death in Buck’s apartment. Gagnon claimed to have met Buck
    online in April 2018 and said the Democratic megadonor flew him
    from Minnesota to Los Angeles.

    “He was quite open about being very generous to the black
    community,” Gagnon said. “I’m his type, and pretty much half of
    the black community is his type — vulnerable, depressed. If
    you’re in a depressive state, that’s the energy that feeds him.”

    Gagnon claims Buck injected him with crystal methamphetamine at
    his sex toy-filled apartment.

    “He took my phone. I was so scared. I felt death walked into my
    soul. I called my mother. I said, ‘I feel like he’s going to
    kill me, I think I’m going to die," he told The Daily Mail.

    Following the discovery of the body Monday morning at Buck's
    apartment, his attorney, Seymour Amster, said his client has not
    been arrested and is cooperating with investigators.

    “From what I know, it was an old friend who died of an
    accidental overdose, and unfortunately, we believe that the
    substance was ingested at some place other than the apartment,”
    Amster said. “The person came over intoxicated.”

    Amster, however, did not return Fox News' emails and phone calls
    about the Gagnon report.

    Buck's apartment was the site of a massive protest Monday night.

    “Arrest Ed Buck, prosecute Ed Buck, and then a jury needs to
    convict Ed Buck,” activist Jasmyne Cannick said to a crowd
    during the demonstration. “This man has had two dead bodies in
    his house, and he is still in his house.”

    “This man is a danger to our community," said another
    demonstrator.

    Buck’s support of political causes began in 1987 in Arizona.
    That year, The New York Times described Buck, then a registered
    Republican, as a “33-year-old millionaire entrepreneur who
    retired from the insurance service business a year ago” to
    become politically active.

    He took the reins of a recall drive that year against then-Gov.
    Evan Mecham, a Republican who'd drawn widespread publicity for
    canceling a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for state workers.

    During the campaign, it was disclosed that Buck had been
    arrested twice. He was accused of public indecency in an adult
    bookstore in 1983, and in 1987 faced a charge of obtaining a
    drug without a proper prescription. The public indecency charge
    was reduced to disturbing the peace, and Buck paid a $26 fine.
    Prosecution in the drug case was suspended after he agreed to
    counseling.

    Although Buck has given more than $500,000 to Democratic
    candidates and groups over the years, a number of politicians
    returned those donations after Fox News’ reporting on Moore’s
    death. Buck’s own congressman, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who
    received $2,700 in 2016, previously told Fox News that he
    donated the full amount to an LGBT nonprofit. A campaign
    spokesperson for Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema told Fox last year
    that she donated $18,800 she’d received from Buck to the UMOM
    New Day Center.

    In addition, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told Fox News that
    he returned a $1,400 donation from Buck last year. The first
    elected official to return a donation from Buck was California
    Rep. Karen Bass, who gave her $250 donation to Moore’s family
    well over a year ago. Rep. Ted Lieu of California recently told
    the Associated Press that he was “deeply disturbed” by the
    disclosure of a second death at Buck’s home and was giving
    Buck’s donations to charity.

    Still, not every politician repudiated Buck. West Hollywood
    Mayor John Heilman previously told Fox News that he had “no
    intention” of returning a $500 donation he received from Buck.
    Cannick, on her website, has a list of political figures and
    organizations that have received donations from him and whether
    or not they have been returned.

    Buck is a past candidate for the West Hollywood City Council and
    is well known in LGBTQ political circles. In response to the
    latest death, the Los Angeles LGBT Center called for a full
    investigation. “While much is still to be learned, it appears
    this tragedy is linked to substance use. LGBT people and other
    marginalized groups are at elevated risk for impacts that result
    from the current epidemic uses of opioids, methamphetamine, and
    other dangerous drugs,” the center said.

    “It says a lot about the dark underbelly of gay culture and West
    Hollywood,” Steve Martin, a former West Hollywood city
    councilman who is gay, told The Los Angeles Times. “We always
    are slapping ourselves on the back about how open-minded and
    diverse we are, and frankly the residents know that’s not always
    the case. When an incident like this comes up, it makes us
    confront a lot of issues that are really uncomfortable.”

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