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   He said he met Ed Buck through the dating website Adam4Adam.   
      
   Months later, he found himself drugged inside Buck’s apartment.   
   Authorities said the man was able to escape, and that was key in   
   arresting the Democratic donor and West Hollywood activist last   
   week.   
      
   But now, as national attention has focused on the Buck case, the   
   man who Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey said “gave   
   us the break we needed” is without a home and facing an   
   uncertain future.   
      
   “I am homeless,” said the man in an interview with The Times. He   
   declined to be identified, and authorities have referred to him   
   in court records as Joe Doe.   
      
   The man, a 37-year-old Wisconsin native, said he recently got a   
   job but was struggling to put his life back together after the   
   ordeal.   
      
   He declined to detail his dealings with Buck because it’s the   
   subject of a criminal investigation.   
      
   But authorities said he fled Buck’s home fearing he was   
   suffering a methamphetamine overdose.   
      
   Buck tried to prevent him from getting medical attention,   
   authorities said. He was able to get to a gas station and call   
   911 after the Sept. 11 incident, which investigators have said   
   was key to bringing charges against Buck. Los Angeles County   
   sheriff’s officials have said that 911 call was crucial in   
   building the case.   
      
   Buck has been the subject of protests and demands for justice   
   since 2017, when a young man was found dead in his home of a   
   drug overdose. Early this year, a second man was found dead   
   inside Buck’s West Hollywood apartment.   
      
   Community activists and family and friends of the victims have   
   long questioned whether Buck’s political connections played a   
   role in the lack of law enforcement action after the first death   
   — an accusation authorities deny.   
      
   A 22-page federal criminal complaint unsealed Thursday painted a   
   depraved picture of how Buck earned the grim sobriquet of “Dr.   
   Kevorkian” among the homeless men in West Hollywood’s Plummer   
   Park, less than a mile from Buck’s home.   
      
   Ten men told investigators that Buck had paid them to use drugs   
   and dress in skimpy underwear for his own sexual pleasure.   
   Several of the men claimed they lost consciousness after Buck   
   served them a drink, and some said they woke up to the sight of   
   him injecting drugs into their arms against their will,   
   according to the complaint.   
      
   Buck was charged Thursday with one count of distributing   
   methamphetamine leading to a death, according to the U.S.   
   attorney’s office in Los Angeles. Buck’s attorney has not   
   returned calls seeking comment but in the past has denied his   
   client did anything wrong.   
      
   In an interview, the man said he was homeless when he met Buck   
   but that he didn’t intend to stay with the donor.   
      
   “I didn’t have a place to stay at some point, but I never asked   
   to stay with him,” he said.   
      
   After he escaped from the apartment, he said he talked to   
   detectives. The man said he had no family in California so after   
   the ordeal with Buck, “I had nowhere to go,” he said.   
      
   He eventually turned to activist Jasmyne Cannick, who has been   
   fighting for authorities to charge Buck for two years. He said   
   she paid for a hotel room out of a GoFundMe account established   
   in the case.   
      
   “People celebrate the arrest of Ed Buck. But they left this man   
   homeless. He is now working but needed somewhere to live,” said   
   Cannick, who has been highly critical of how law enforcement   
   handled the Buck case. “They were all taking a bow praising him   
   while ignoring his well-being.”   
      
   In a statement Tuesday, the district attorney’s office said the   
   Sheriff’s Department had sought assistance from a community-   
   based organization to help Joe Doe find housing and other   
   services. “Last Wednesday, our office assigned a victim services   
   representative to assist Mr. Doe with any needs beyond what the   
   community-based organization could provide. While housing was   
   secured for Mr. Doe, he believed the location was not   
   geographically suitable for his needs.”   
      
   The statement added that a victim services representative from   
   the D.A.'s office has contacted Joe Doe to assist him further.   
      
   Buck’s behavior first came under scrutiny in July 2017 after   
   Gemmel Moore, who had been homeless and sometimes worked as an   
      
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