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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Prominent Democratic Party donor Ed Buck,
who is already facing state charges of running a drug den in his
West Hollywood apartment, was expected to appear in federal
court today on a charge of providing drugs that killed a 26-year-
old man in his apartment two years ago.

Buck, 65, was charged Wednesday with a single count of
distribution of methamphetamine resulting in the death of Gemmel
Moore, who died July 27, 2017, of an overdose in Buck's
apartment in the 1200 block of Laurel Avenue.

Los Angeles County prosecutors had earlier declined to file any
state charges against Buck over Moore's death, citing
insufficient evidence.

Moore was the first of two men to die at Buck's apartment in
less than 18 months. He was found dead of a crystal
methamphetamine overdose, and the coroner ruled the death
accidental. On Jan. 7 of this year, a second man died of
methamphetamine toxicity at Buck's home. The death of Timothy
Dean, 55, of West Hollywood, was also ruled accidental. County
prosecutors said that case remains under review.

Buck was not arrested until Tuesday night, when he was charged
by the District Attorney's Office stemming from a near-fatal
overdose in his apartment that occurred Sept. 11. Buck allegedly
injected a man with "two dangerously large doses" of
methamphetamine at Buck's apartment. He allegedly administering
a "dangerously large dose of methamphetamine" to the same man on
week earlier, according to a bail memorandum filed by Deputy
District Attorney Cynthia Barnes.

Buck allegedly refused to render aid to the man, who eventually
fled from the apartment and called 911 from a nearby gas
station, according to the document. The 37-year-old man suffered
an overdose but survived, authorities said.

Buck was charged in Superior Court with one felony count each of
battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine
and maintaining a drug house. He appeared briefly in a downtown
Los Angeles courtroom Thursday morning, but his arraignment was
delayed until Oct. 11.

He was ordered to remain jailed in lieu of $4 million bail on
the state charges, but federal officials plan to ask that he be
held without bail. The state charges against Buck carry a
possible prison sentence of five years and eight months, but the
federal charge could land him behind bars for a minimum of 20
years and a maximum of life without parole.

Buck was transferred into federal custody Thursday following his
appearance in state court.

Federal prosecutors said Buck has a history of injecting men
with drugs and paying them for sexual activity. They contend
Buck flew Moore to Los Angeles and gave him drugs and money in
exchange for sex. U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said Moore's mother
reported to investigators that her son had told her that Buck
"held Mr. Moore against his will and shot him up with drugs."

Hanna said investigators have identified 10 other "victims" --
including Dean, who died in Buck's apartment in January. The
other nine victims all said Buck administered drugs to them or
strongly encouraged them to do so, and paid them for sex, Hanna
said.

According to a federal court affidavit, the man who nearly
overdosed in Buck's apartment -- leading to the state charges --
told investigators that "Buck solicited him to engage in sexual
activities and distributed methamphetamine to him nearly every
day during an approximately one-month period from on or about
July 29, 2019, to on or about September 6, 2019." The man said
Buck "intravenously injected methamphetamine" into him on both
Sept. 4 and Sept. 11, causing him "to suffer overdose effects,
requiring him to be transported to the hospital."

Buck's attorney, Seymour Amster, has denied that his client --
who allegedly was present at the location when the earlier fatal
overdoses occurred -- had any involvement in either death.

After Buck's appearance in Superior Court Thursday morning,
Amster said, "We will fight this case vigorously, but I'm not so
sure legitimately that there was ever enough evidence to ever
cause this (state) case to be filed until recently. So, we had
two previous incidents. We all know that. We all know that the
coroner's office came out with an accidental death (finding).
There were some complaints that political donations in hundreds
of dollars made a difference. I've never heard anything so
absurd in my life. We had a situation here where the prosecution
believes they have a witness, therefore they have probable
cause. I don't see where the probable cause existed prior to
this event so let us look at things properly."

Barnes, the deputy district attorney, wrote in the Superior
Court bail memorandum that Buck is "a violent, dangerous sexual
predator" who "mainly preys on men made vulnerable by addiction
and homelessness" and that he is "still a suspect in the deaths
of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean."

Both deaths were cited in the bail memorandum filed by Barnes.

"Not deterred by the senseless deaths of Moore and Dean, the
defendant nearly killed a third victim last week," the deputy
district attorney wrote. "The defendant's predatory acts and
conscious disregard for human life must be stopped."

The prosecutor alleged that Buck lured "these vulnerable
victims" to his house by using "the bait of narcotics, money and
shelter."

"From his home, in a position of power, Buck manipulates his
victims into participating in his sexual fetishes. These
fetishes include supplying and personally administering
dangerously large doses of narcotics to his victims," Barnes
wrote in her court filing. "The defendant's predatory acts and
willful disregard for human life must be stopped before another
life is lost."

Buck and District Attorney Jackie Lacey are being sued in
federal court over Moore's death. Moore's mother alleges that
Buck lured her son from Houston to Los Angeles for the purpose
of engaging in "commercial" sex acts.

The civil lawsuit accuses Buck of human trafficking and engaging
in "revenge porn" by making and sharing a video of his alleged
"meth-fueled sexual encounters" with Moore.

Lacey and Assistant Head Deputy District Attorney Craig Hum are
named as co-defendants for allegedly violating Moore's civil
rights in their refusal to prosecute Buck.

Buck has been a prominent donor to Democratic candidates and
office holders. He has also been active in LGBTQ political
circles and once ran for the West Hollywood City Council.

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