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   WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — When a dead man was carried out of   
   Ed Buck’s apartment two years ago, members of the gay political   
   club he lavished with thousands of dollars in political   
   donations swiftly ousted him.   
      
   Buck attempted a comeback in early January, less than six months   
   after prosecutors declined to bring charges in the overdose   
   death. He tried to crash the Stonewall Democratic Club’s holiday   
   party at a Los Angeles-area wine bar, telling members he had   
   been exonerated, club president Lester Aponte said.   
      
   “When somebody dies at your house, wouldn’t you think that’s the   
   kind of event that will make you re-examine your life choices?”   
   Aponte told The Associated Press. “It doesn’t seem like it   
   registered with him at all.”   
      
   Two days after Buck was escorted out of the bash, another gay   
   man was found dead in his West Hollywood apartment — again from   
   a methamphetamine overdose. Buck is white, and both dead men   
   were black.   
      
   He wasn’t stopped until authorities said a third black man   
   nearly died. It’s what victims’ families and their supporters   
   warned about for two years as they tried to get prosecutors to   
   bring charges.   
      
   “I said it the last time we were down here that there’s going to   
   be a third victim,” said LaTisha Nixon, whose 26-year-old son,   
   Gemmel Moore, was the first to die. “We said there’s gonna be a   
   second victim. We kept saying it because we all knew … Ed Buck   
   didn’t stop doing what he was doing.”   
      
   Nixon and her supporters welcomed the arrest but criticized the   
   time it took to put Buck behind bars and renewed their questions   
   about whether a wealthy, white Democratic donor benefited   
   because the victims were mostly gay black men and drug users,   
   some of whom were sex workers and homeless.   
      
   “If white gay men had been dying in a black man’s house or   
   anybody’s house, rather, this case would have been taken a lot   
   more seriously,” said Jasmyne Cannick, a communications   
   strategist who spearheaded the effort to get justice for Moore.   
   “Ed Buck knew who he was preying on, and he knew that people   
   would not care. Or he thought that people would not care.”   
      
   Buck, 65, was arrested Sept. 17 after the third man was   
   hospitalized for an overdose.   
      
   The Los Angeles County district attorney charged Buck with   
   running a drug house. Two days later, U.S. prosecutors charged   
   him with distributing methamphetamine resulting in Moore’s death.   
      
   Buck is being held without bail and has yet to enter a plea in   
   either case. His attorneys declined to comment, but one defense   
   lawyer, Seymour Amster, previously said Buck denied any role in   
   the deaths of Moore or Timothy Dean, 55, who overdosed Jan. 7.   
      
   Moore was found naked on a mattress on Buck’s living room floor   
   on July 27, 2017. Two dozen syringes and five glass pipes were   
   found, along with meth stored in a toolbox with sex toys.   
      
   Prosecutors said Buck paid men with drugs and money to feed a   
   sexual fetish that included having them pose in underwear and   
   injecting some of them with large doses of drugs.   
      
   District Attorney Jackie Lacey has defended her decision not to   
   bring a case sooner or file homicide charges. She said there was   
   insufficient evidence to charge Buck in the deaths and that it   
   made more sense to proceed with a federal prosecution that would   
   bring a minimum 20-year sentence if he’s convicted.   
      
   Lacey, who is black, denied that Buck, who had given her a $100   
   donation that she later returned, received any favoritism. She   
   said investigators didn’t have the necessary witnesses to make   
   an arrest until the latest victim provided the account that gave   
   them their big break.   
      
   “We did not have other victims that were willing to talk to the   
   prosecutors to tell us what happened, to tell us they were   
   injected by Mr. Buck,” Lacey said.   
      
   The federal criminal complaint, however, said eight men had   
   provided harrowing accounts about encounters with Buck before   
   the latest alleged victim survived overdosing twice in a week   
   this month. That man said he lived with Buck for weeks this   
   summer and Buck regularly injected him with meth.   
      
   Several of those men said Buck encouraged them to take drugs or   
   injected them himself — some against their will and others who   
   said they woke up to being injected or suspected they had been   
   given a powerful drug before passing out.   
      
   One man, who was homeless and worked as a prostitute, told   
   investigators in March that Buck was known as Dr. Kevorkian, a   
      
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