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By BRIAN MELLEY and STEFANIE DAZIO | The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Gemmel Moore had moved back home with his mother
in Texas two years ago and was missing Los Angeles when he
texted a photo of syringe in an arm to a wealthy gay man he knew
in California.

Ed Buck, an influential political activist more than twice
Moore’s age, later replied: “Be here now.”

Buck bought a plane ticket for Moore and had a car pick him up a
week later at the airport. By sunset, Moore, 26, would be dead
on a mattress on the floor of Buck’s Los Angeles-area home.

Federal prosecutors released new details Thursday as they
charged Buck, 65, with distributing methamphetamine resulting in
Moore’s death on July 27, 2017.

A criminal complaint and accompanying affidavit detailed
multiple allegations that Buck injected men with meth against
their wishes during sexual encounters.

The investigation found at least 10 alleged victims, several of
whom described in salacious detail Buck’s apparent fetish to pay
men to use drugs and have sex, which often took a dark turn and
led to several suspected overdoses.

Messages to Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, were not
immediately returned.

Even after another man, Timothy Dean, died of an overdose at
Buck’s home in January, the Democratic donor continued to
solicit men for sex and drug use until last week, when another
man who overdosed managed to escape as Buck tried to stop him
from leaving, authorities said.

Both men who died were black. Buck, who is white, was not
charged for more than two years after Moore’s death, and critics
have questioned if wealth, race or political ties influenced the
investigation.

Buck has donated tens of thousands of dollars to California
candidates, including Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, and is well
known in LGBTQ political circles.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who is black
and charged Buck this week with running a drug house, rejected
the notion that there was any favoritism based on campaign
donations.

“We were not at all moved by his reputation,” Lacey said.

U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said Buck preyed on homeless and other
vulnerable men and is a “serious threat to public safety.”

Authorities said Buck used his position of power to manipulate
men into participating in sexual fantasies that involved
injecting meth.

Male prostitutes knew Buck’s habit for paying in cash and drugs
and some referred to him as Dr. Kevorkian, an apparent reference
to Jack Kevorkian, a doctor who went to prison for helping
patients end their lives.

On some occasions, when someone refused to inject drugs, Buck
plunged the needle in their arm himself, Agent John Mundell of
the Drug Enforcement Administration said in an affidavit.

A homeless prostitute recalled two occasions in 2011 when Buck
injected him with meth and he lost consciousness. The man,
identified in the affidavit as victim 6, said Buck insisted on
injecting prostitutes and would reject them without pay if they
refused, Mundell wrote.

The federal charge comes two days after the district attorney
brought the drug house charges in the case of the man who said
he escaped after overdosing there on Sept. 4 and again on Sept.
11.

“The surviving victim’s statements gave us the break we needed,”
Lacey said. “We needed someone live, willing to come to court,
willing to be cross-examined.”

Buck appeared in both Los Angeles Superior Court and federal
court Thursday but was not asked to enter a plea. The federal
judge set a detention hearing for Sept. 26. Buck will remain in
custody until then.
Buck came under investigation in January after Dean, 55, was
found dead of an accidental methamphetamine overdose in his
apartment.

Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, told investigators a month after
her son’s death that he had once told her about Buck. Her son
described him as rich and powerful and said Buck held him
“against his will and shot him up with drugs,” the affidavit
said.

Nixon “is relieved that Ed Buck is no longer on the streets and
free to continue harming black men,” her lawyer, Hussain Turk,
said Wednesday.

___

Associated Press writer Christopher Weber in Los Angeles
contributed to this story.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/20/official-political-donor- faces-us-charge-in-overdose-death/

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