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   Democratic Party megadonor Ed Buck faces new questions this week   
   after Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives opened an   
   investigation into the second death of a man -- identified by a   
   medical examiner as 55-year-old Timothy Dean -- at Buck's home   
   in less than two years, and a third man came forward with an   
   account of what he described as his drug-fueled interactions   
   with the well-connected Californian.   
      
   Deputies in West Hollywood responded early Monday morning to a   
   report of a person not breathing at Buck's home, and county   
   firefighters pronounced the man dead. The cause of the death   
   will be determined by the coroner, according to Nicole Nishida,   
   a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s department.   
      
   But, critics are questioning whether Buck's race — both men   
   found dead were black — or if his wealth or political ties to   
   the Democratic Party influenced an initial investigation of the   
   64-year-old who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to a   
   slew of liberal causes and candidates over the years, including   
   Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and a who's who of top California   
   politicians.   
      
   “He definitely has not been cooperative, as his attorney says.   
   He refused to answer any questions when I tried speaking with   
   him,” Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide   
   Investigator Quilmes Rodriguez told Fox News via email Wednesday   
   night.   
      
   Protesters call for prosecution of Ed Buck after second man   
   found dead at the Democratic donor's homeVideo   
   Officials said the investigation of the second death will   
   include a review of Gemmel Moore's death in 2017. After a slow-   
   moving investigation that went on for months, Buck was not   
   charged.   
      
   “On July 27, 2017 there was a death investigation of a male   
   adult, Gemmel Moore, who was determined to have overdosed at the   
   same location. Mr. Edward Buck was present during both   
   incidents,” said a recent statement from the Los Angeles County   
   Sheriff's Department.   
      
   The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the   
   “admissible evidence is insufficient to prove beyond a   
   reasonable doubt” that Buck gave Moore drugs or is responsible   
   for his death in a document dated July 26 obtained by Fox News.   
   An autopsy report said Moore died of a methamphetamine overdose.   
      
   Meanwhile, on Wednesday, The Daily Mail published an account by   
   Jermaine Gagnon, a 28-year-old who claimed he narrowly escaped   
   death in Buck’s apartment. Gagnon claimed to have met Buck   
   online in April 2018 and said the Democratic megadonor flew him   
   from Minnesota to Los Angeles.   
      
   “He was quite open about being very generous to the black   
   community,” Gagnon said. “I’m his type, and pretty much half of   
   the black community is his type — vulnerable, depressed. If   
   you’re in a depressive state, that’s the energy that feeds him.”   
      
   Gagnon claims Buck injected him with crystal methamphetamine at   
   his sex toy-filled apartment.   
      
   “He took my phone. I was so scared. I felt death walked into my   
   soul. I called my mother. I said, ‘I feel like he’s going to   
   kill me, I think I’m going to die," he told The Daily Mail.   
      
   Following the discovery of the body Monday morning at Buck's   
   apartment, his attorney, Seymour Amster, said his client has not   
   been arrested and is cooperating with investigators.   
      
   “From what I know, it was an old friend who died of an   
   accidental overdose, and unfortunately, we believe that the   
   substance was ingested at some place other than the apartment,”   
   Amster said. “The person came over intoxicated.”   
      
   Amster, however, did not return Fox News' emails and phone calls   
   about the Gagnon report.   
      
   Buck's apartment was the site of a massive protest Monday night.   
      
   “Arrest Ed Buck, prosecute Ed Buck, and then a jury needs to   
   convict Ed Buck,” activist Jasmyne Cannick said to a crowd   
   during the demonstration. “This man has had two dead bodies in   
   his house, and he is still in his house.”   
      
   “This man is a danger to our community," said another   
   demonstrator.   
      
   Buck’s support of political causes began in 1987 in Arizona.   
   That year, The New York Times described Buck, then a registered   
   Republican, as a “33-year-old millionaire entrepreneur who   
   retired from the insurance service business a year ago” to   
   become politically active.   
      
   He took the reins of a recall drive that year against then-Gov.   
   Evan Mecham, a Republican who'd drawn widespread publicity for   
   canceling a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for state workers.   
      
      
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