XPost: la.general, alt.politics.media, rec.arts.tv.comedy.colbert-report   
   XPost: dc.politics   
   From: weho.dem.nambla.perverts@disney.com   
      
   https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/01/09/17/8321528-6573905-image-   
   a-6_1547055571738.jpg   
      
   https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/01/09/17/8321230-6573905-image-   
   m-12_1547055672514.jpg   
      
   California Democratic activist and megadonor Ed Buck has hired   
   former O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden to defend him   
   against federal charges in connection with two overdose deaths   
   at his West Hollywood apartment, according to new reports.   
      
   Buck was indicted in October with distributing methamphetamine   
   that resulted in the deaths of Timothy Dean in January and   
   Gemmel Moore in 2017.   
      
   Federal prosecutors said Buck, 65, who has given hundreds of   
   thousands of dollars to Democratic causes, preyed on vulnerable   
   gay black men and pressured them to let him inject them with   
   drugs as part of a sexual ritual known as “party and play,"  NBC   
   Los Angeles reported.   
      
   Buck was arrested Sept. 17 and hit with state charges of   
   operating a drug house. Two days later, federal prosecutors   
   charged him with distributing methamphetamine that resulted in   
   Moore’s death.   
      
   The Los Angeles Times reported that Darden confirmed he will   
   take on the Buck case: “That’s all I can say today,” he said. “I   
   haven’t received any discovery yet, so that’s all I can say.”   
      
   The newspaper reported that court records show Darden replaced   
   Buck’s deputy public defender, Claire Simonich, on Dec. 5.   
      
   Buck is being held without bail, and his trial is set for August   
   at the earliest.   
      
   The federal charges bring a mandatory minimum sentence of 20   
   years if Buck is convicted in the deaths.   
      
   Family members of the victims had criticized local prosecutors   
   for not charging Buck in the deaths. Moore’s family and friends   
   have said Buck got favorable treatment because of his status and   
   reputation, and that the victims were ignored because they were   
   gay black men, drug users and often sex workers.   
      
   “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.”   
      
   Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey has said   
   politics played no role in her decision not to prosecute Buck in   
   the deaths of the two men. She defended her decision and said   
   there was insufficient evidence to proceed with murder charges.   
      
   The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reopened the case   
   after the second death in January.   
      
   In July, the U.S. attorney’s office took the case after   
   sheriff’s detectives approached a federal task force   
   investigating opioid overdoses.   
      
   Buck has donated tens of thousands of dollars to California   
   candidates, including Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, and is well   
   known in LGBTQ political circles. According to federal records,   
   Buck contributed more than $500,000 to Democratic groups --   
   including $1,500 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign and   
   $2,950 to the Hillary Clinton campaign.   
      
   Buck gained fame by leading a 1987 campaign to recall Republican   
   Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham, who was ultimately convicted in an   
   impeachment trial and kicked out of office.   
      
   Buck had been a Republican but said he switched party   
   affiliation to Democrat because he felt the GOP was intolerant   
   toward the gay community.   
      
   He has told reporters that he worked as a male model in Europe   
   in his youth and returned to Phoenix, where he worked for a   
   friend’s company, eventually buying it out of bankruptcy for   
   $250,000 and turning it around for a profit of more than $1   
   million.   
      
   He said he retired to West Hollywood in 1991 at the age of 37   
   and became active in animal rescue efforts.   
      
   The Associated Press contributed to this report.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/ed-buck-hires-former-oj-simpson-   
   prosecutor-christopher-darden   
      
   TAGS: Barack Obama Homosexual Degenerate Gay Pedophile Democrat   
   Liberalism Pervert CNN CBS ABC NBC Disney MSNBC Faggots Hillary   
   Clinton Racist Queer Progressive Antifa Faggots Nancy Pelosi   
       
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)