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   The state of California is home to some of the most infamous   
   serial killers in U.S. history — from the Manson Family, to the   
   Freeway Killers, all the way to the Grim Sleeper.   
      
   Well, another accused killer is now awaiting trial in   
   California. This time it’s prolific Democratic donor and West   
   Hollywood resident Ed Buck.   
      
   Buck was finally arrested by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s   
   deputies and charged with operating a drug house, as well as   
   providing methamphetamine to a 37 year-old man who suffered an   
   overdose at Buck’s apartment.   
      
   This incident was the third known time a man suffered a meth   
   overdose at Buck’s home. The previous two alleged victims,   
   Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, did not survive.   
      
   Days later, the feds announced that they too would be   
   prosecuting Buck — this time on one count of distribution of   
   methamphetamine resulting in death.   
      
   At a press conference, U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said   
   investigators found 10 more victims, nine of whom said Buck,   
   “administered drugs to them or strongly encouraged them to   
   ingest narcotics as part of agreements to be compensated for   
   sexual services.”   
      
   The case is now generating national and international headlines;   
   and I’m noticing that three false storylines seem to be   
   emerging, and they need to be corrected.   
      
   First, The New York Times tried to minimize Buck’s power and   
   influence by referring to him as “a small-time Democratic donor   
   and political activist.”   
      
   That’s like calling Harvey Weinstein a “love-sick teenager.”   
      
   According to federal records, Buck has contributed more than   
   $500,000 to Democratic candidates and groups, and was classified   
   by the California Secretary of State’s office as being a “major   
   donor.”   
      
   Before he was nicknamed ‘Dr. Kevorkian’ by his West Hollywood   
   neighbors, Buck could have easily gone by Ed ‘Big Bucks’ with   
   all of the campaign cash he was throwing around.   
      
   Second, it has been reported in multiple publications that the   
   politicians and political action committees who took   
   contributions from Buck acted quickly to distance themselves   
   from him.   
      
   Some politicians, including former Secretary of State Hillary   
   Clinton and former President Obama, still won’t say what they’re   
   doing with Buck’s donations, even after his arrest.   
      
   In her defense, Hillary may not even know that Buck has been   
   arrested. If she did, she might have fainted again.   
      
   Other candidates, including Congressman Adam Schiff, D-Burbank,   
   and Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, agreed to give their Buck   
   contributions of $2,700 and $19,400 respectively, to charity,   
   only after the second man, Timothy Dean, died in Buck’s   
   apartment in January.   
      
   The families of the victims, asked for the contributions to help   
   pay for funeral expenses, but both congressmen declined.   
      
   What profiles in courage.   
      
   To date, only two elected officials donated the money they   
   received from Buck to the victims’ families. Congresswoman Karen   
   Bass, D-Los Angeles, sent the entire $250 she received from Buck   
   to help pay for Gemmel Moore’s funeral expenses, and West   
   Hollywood Councilman John D’Amico made a $25 contribution toward   
   the funeral.   
      
   Finally, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey   
   claimed that her office worked diligently and carefully to find   
   and speak with witnesses over the course of the last two years   
   so they could build a case against Ed Buck.   
   But the Moore family attorneys say the opposite is true.  Nana   
   Gyamfi and Hussain Turk wrote in a statement that, “Our team of   
   activists had to personally escort witnesses to the LASD’s   
   office and pressure them into recording our witnesses’   
   statements.  We later discovered, in May of 2019, that Lacey was   
   not even aware that these reports existed.”   
      
   Maybe prosecutors were too busy busting people for possession of   
   plastic drinking straws to go after Ed Buck.   
      
   The reality is that Ed Buck abused vulnerable gay black men   
   because powerful people looked the other way and enabled him.   
      
   Now that he’s finally been arrested, we shouldn’t try to   
   minimize his power and influence, or rewrite history to make law   
   enforcement and politicians seem as if they cared about the   
   suffering of Ed Buck’s victims more than they actually did.   
      
   https://www.ocregister.com/2019/10/05/democratic-donor-and-   
   accused-killer-ed-buck-finally-arrested-john-phillips/   
      
      
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