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Self-proclaimed multimillionaire and Democratic donor Ed Buck –
already embroiled in controversy over two men found dead in his
home of overdoses -- was charged late Tuesday with running a
drug den.

The 65-year-old, picked up at his West Hollywood home, also
faces counts of administering methamphetamine and battery
causing serious bodily injury, all of which are felonies,
authorities said.

Buck, who is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges on
Wednesday, is a “violent, dangerous sexual predator” who
targeted homeless, drug-addled men – offering them drugs, money
and a place to stay, Los Angeles county prosecutors said in a
filing.

In exchange, the men partook in often bizarre sex acts,
including a fetish involving administering dangerous doses of
drugs, according to the legal papers. Prosecutors are now asking
that Buck be held on $4 million bail. His attorney, Seymour
Amster, did not immediately respond to a request for comment
from FOX Business.

On Sept. 11, Buck injected a 37-year-old man with
methamphetamine while inside his apartment, prosecutors said,
then refused to help when the dose proved too high. The man
survived after he was able to escape the apartment and call 911,
prosecutors said.

Two other men were not so fortunate. Timothy Dean, 55, and 26-
year-old Gemmel Moore, both of whom were African American, died
of accidental drug overdoses inside Buck’s apartment in January
2019 and July 2017, respectively.

While prosecutors on Tuesday blamed the pair of deaths on Buck,
the political firebrand was never criminally charged, prompting
public speculation and criticism. A native of Phoenix, Arizona,
Buck was born in 1954; his mother was a secretary and his father
was a city sanitation worker, the Los Angeles Times reported in
January.

He moved to Europe to pursue modeling and acting in his early
20s before returning to Arizona, where he began working for a
friend’s company – which the Times described as “an information
service for auto insurers” – and ultimately bought the business.

He sold the company at age 32 for what he said was a “million-
dollar profit,” according to the Arizona Republic newspaper.
Additional details about the source of his wealth were not
immediately available.

While Buck once identified himself as a conservative Republican,
according to the Los Angeles Times, he became a national figure
when he spearheaded the effort to impeach Arizona’s Republican
Gov. Evan Mecham in the 1980s. He later made large donations to
Democrats, including more than $500,000 since 2007, according to
court documents filed by Moore's mother in a wrongful death suit
pertaining to her son.

At the federal level, those include contributions to prominent
Washington lawmakers as well as 2016 Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton. At the local level, Buck has donated
more than $51,000 to Los Angeles city and county officials,
candidates, and affiliated parties dating to 2008.

In 2012, Buck contributed $100 to the campaign for Jackie Lacey
for Los Angeles County District Attorney, and four years later,
gave $1,400 to Eric Garcetti for Mayor of Los Angeles. Both
Lacey and Garcetti still hold their titles.

The highest contribution was $13,000, according to the court
papers, to former West Hollywood Mayor John Duran when he ran
for county supervisor in 2014.

Duran, a Democrat, was elected Mayor of the City of West
Hollywood, where Buck resides, in March 2001, but stepped down
in March of this year, citing health issues, the Los Angeles
Times reported.

The openly-gay mayor was the subject of multiple sexual
harassment allegations, including one lawsuit that resulted in
the city’s payment of a $500,000 settlement, according to the
newspaper.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/who-is-ed-buck-what-is-he- accused-of-and-how-did-he-amass-his-fortune

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