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   Two years after her son Gemmel Moore died in the West Hollywood   
   apartment of Democratic donor Ed Buck, LaTisha Nixon said Los   
   Angeles County prosecutors ignored her pleas to investigate and   
   did not communicate with her.   
      
   Last week, Buck was arrested and the Los Angeles County district   
   attorney’s office charged him with operating a drug house. Nixon   
   said she only learned of the arrest and charges because she got   
   a call from Jasmyne Cannick, an activist who has become a   
   spokeswoman for her family.   
      
   Later that week, federal prosecutors announced they were   
   charging Buck with one count of distributing methamphetamine   
   leading to a death.   
      
   That death was that of her son, but, Nixon said, she was   
   surprised once again and had no advance notice of the charges   
   being announced.   
      
   “No one has reached out to me,” she said Wednesday. “I haven’t   
   heard from anybody. I get updates from both of my attorneys and   
   Jasmyne.”   
      
   At a news conference Wednesday, Nixon expressed withering   
   criticism of the district attorney’s investigation of Moore’s   
   2017 death and said she was grateful that federal investigators   
   now are involved in the case.   
      
   “I did not see that coming,” Nixon said of the federal charges.   
   “I was so happy … that it got snatched from Jackie Lacey.”   
      
   “Jackie Lacey, she dragged her feet,” Nixon added.   
      
   Buck’s behavior first came under scrutiny in July 2017 after   
   Moore died of a methamphetamine overdose in Buck’s apartment.   
   Investigators initially ruled his death to be accidental, but   
   activists and Moore’s family quickly challenged that   
   determination. In a journal found among 26-year-old Moore’s   
   possessions, Moore blamed Buck for his drug addiction, saying   
   Buck “gave me my first injection of [crystal] meth.”   
      
   The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department revisited the case,   
   and, in 2018, investigators asked prosecutors to consider four   
   charges in Moore’s death: murder, voluntary manslaughter, and   
   furnishing and possessing drugs. Lacey declined to file a case,   
   citing insufficient evidence.   
      
   When a second man, 55-year-old Timothy Dean, died of a   
   methamphetamine overdose in Buck’s apartment in January, the   
   Sheriff’s Department said it would take another look at the case.   
      
   Buck was arrested at the apartment last Tuesday night, less than   
   a week after a man fled his home fearing he was suffering a   
   methamphetamine overdose, prosecutors said. Buck tried to   
   prevent him from getting medical attention, authorities said.   
   The man, referred to in court documents as Joe Doe, 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.   
      
   Nixon and friends of her family say they believe Buck — who   
   retired decades ago and was primarily known around West   
   Hollywood for his donations to Democratic politicians and causes   
   — was not arrested for two years after Moore’s death because of   
   political connections and because he was white and Moore and   
   Dean were black. Authorities have denied those allegations.   
      
   This week, Buck was issued a notice from lawyers for his   
   apartment’s property owners to leave the premises within three   
   days.   
      
   In a Sept. 23 letter, the Valley Village law firm of Dennis P.   
   Block & Associates told Buck his lease was terminated because of   
   his “indecent, offensive, harassing and annoying” conduct,   
   including the discovery of drugs and the deaths of two people.   
      
   Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, has not returned requests for   
   comment.   
      
   After Nixon’s press conference Wednesday afternoon, Greg   
   Risling, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office, said in   
   an email: “Our office declines comment.”   
      
   Nixon said Wednesday that she received a call last year from a   
   sheriff’s detective just before it was announced that the   
   district attorney would not be pressing charges in her son’s   
   death. After that, she never heard from investigators again, she   
   said.   
      
   “I haven’t heard anything,” she said. “I have been treated so   
   poorly.”   
      
   According to a 22-page federal criminal complaint unsealed last   
   week, 10 men told investigators that Buck had paid them to use   
   drugs and dress up in skimpy underwear for his own sexual   
   pleasure. Several of the men claimed they lost consciousness   
      
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