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   From: felcher.adam.schiff@sacbee.com   
      
   This may not have been the endorsement Elizabeth Warren was   
   looking for.   
      
   Ahead of Thursday night’s sixth Democratic presidential debate,   
   the Massachusetts senator’s presidential campaign trumpeted a   
   list of endorsements from figures associated with President   
   Obama’s campaign and administration — including alleged   
   “dangerous sexual predator” Ed Buck.   
      
   “I’m grateful to have the support of these Obama campaign alumni   
   and my fellow Obama administration alumni,” tweeted Warren on   
   Wednesday, linking to a CNN article about more than 200 Obama-   
   linked figures signing on to back the Massachusetts senator in   
   2020.   
      
   But a closer look at the list reveals an “Edward B. P. Buck” —   
   apparently the disgraced Democratic mega-donor charged with   
   forcing lethal doses of drugs on multiple lovers at this West   
   Hollywood home.   
      
   The first death came in 2017, when Gemmel Moore, a 26-year-old   
   homeless male prostitute, suffered a fatal crystal meth overdose   
   in Buck’s home.   
      
   Buck at first dodged charges in that death — as he initially did   
   in January 2019 when a second man, Timothy Dean, 55, died in the   
   home of a meth overdose.   
      
   But when a third man, 37, suffered a non-fatal overdose at the   
   home in September, Buck was arrested on charges of battery,   
   administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house, with   
   prosecutors blasting him as a “violent, dangerous sexual   
   predator” in court papers.   
      
   Since charged in the deaths of both Moore and Dean, Buck has   
   maintained his innocence.   
      
   Warren’s campaign said in a statement that the list was compiled   
   by former figures in the Obama camp, and that Buck never should   
   have been included because, while he donated to Obama, he was   
   neither a staffer nor an alum of the campaign.   
      
   “This was a mistake considering Ed Buck was not staff or an   
   alum,” said campaign spokesman Chris Hayden. “This was put   
   together via Google Doc by some Obama alums and they caught some   
   non-staff that populated the list but obviously they missed one.   
      
   “They are removing it.”   
      
   Warren is one of seven hopefuls for the Democratic presidential   
   nominee set to compete Thursday night in the sixth round of   
   nationally-televised debates.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2019/12/19/warren-campaign-touts-list-of-   
   supporters-including-predator-ed-buck/   
          
      
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