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The man whose cooperation prosecutors said was key to last
week's arrest of political activist and donor Ed Buck says he's
homeless.

"Before I met Ed, before all of this happened, I'd never been
out on the streets like this," the man told NBCLA in a telephone
interview Monday night. "I always had pride that I had a job and
a place to stay."

The man, identified by the pseudonym "Joe Doe" in a criminal
complaint, provided the information that gave the LA County
District Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Department the evidence
needed for an initial arrest on state felony charges, according
to DA Jackie Lacey.

Doe said he only learned after Buck's arrest that his
information had been so important.

"I didn't know how much until I started reading some of the news
stories, then it hit on the Federal level," he said. "I had no
indications any of that was going on, I just knew they had a
behind-the-scenes case building."

Buck was turned-over to Federal agents last Thursday. A criminal
complaint filed in US District Court charged Buck with one count
of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death, for the
fatal overdose of Gemmel Moore in July, 2017. If convicted Buck
could face a sentence of between 20 years and life in prison.

Joe Doe said he’d hoped the County could help with temporary
housing. He said a County official offered last week to arrange
shelter space in Anaheim, but Doe said that would make a daily
bus commute to a new job in West LA impossible. The official
said shelters closer to LA were full.

According to court filings Buck, 65, administered two
methamphetamine overdoses by syringe to Doe, who had to get
emergency medical help on September 4 and 11. Lacey said at a
news conference last week Doe was the only first-person witness
to Buck's conduct that met the legal standard for filing a
criminal case.

Since then Doe has been staying in a rented room near Downtown,
paid for by activist, journalist, and LGBTQ advocate Jasmyne
Cannick, Doe said. Cannick turned to her social media following
for assistance in raising money for temporary housing, for which
Doe said he was extraordinarily grateful to receive.

"I just want to get back to having peace," he said. "I need to
find a home, I need that safe feeling again."

A fundraising effort has been established to help "Joe Doe" find
housing.

Lacey's office said it reached out to "Joe Doe" with offers of
housing assistance last week and reconnected with him Tuesday.

The Federal complaint also links Buck to a second overdose death
inside his Laurel Ave. apartment in January. Timothy Dean, 55,
is listed as, "victim 1," in the court filing, which also
identifies 9 other men who Buck allegedly invited into his home
to use drugs.

Buck was being held with no possibility of bail until a
detention hearing. He was assigned a public defender for the
federal case and is no longer being represented by his longtime
attorney Seymour Amster, according to a court record.

Editor's Note: This story has been updated adding a statement
from Jackie Lacey's Office.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Ed-Buck-Witness-Left- Homeless-561200331.html

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