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   UPDATE: Federal prosecutors have just confirmed that Ed Buck,   
   already facing state charges for allegedly running a drug den at   
   his West Hollywood apartment, has been charged in U.S. District   
   Court with distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death.   
   The charge stems from the July 27, 2017, death of Gemmel Moore,   
   26, who overdosed in Buck’s apartment. Buck is expected to   
   appear in federal court in downtown Los Angeles sometime   
   Thursday afternoon. Buck was ordered to remain jailed in lieu of   
   $4 million bail on the state charges, and transferred to federal   
   custody. Officials said the federal case would proceed prior to   
   the state charges. The state charges against Buck carry a   
   possible prison sentence of five years and eight months, but the   
   federal charge could land him behind bars for a minimum of 20   
   years and a maximum of life without parole.   
      
   Ed Buck, a prominent Democratic Party donor whose West Hollywood   
   apartment was the scene of two fatal drug overdoses, remained   
   jailed Wednesday on suspicion of running a drug den in his   
   residence, where another near-fatal overdose allegedly occurred   
   last week. Meanwhile, several Democratic political figures have   
   spoken out in support of last night’s arrest of Buck, whose   
   alleged abuse of young black sex workers while remaining   
   somewhat influential in local politics has created what some see   
   as a stain on West Hollywood’s reputation.   
      
   Buck, who is being held on $4 million bail at the Twin Towers   
   Correctional Facility, allegedly injected a man on Sept. 11 with   
   “two dangerously large doses” of methamphetamine at the   
   defendant’s apartment at 1234 N. Laurel Ave. He allegedly had   
   administered a “dangerously large dose of methamphetamine” to   
   the same man a week earlier, according to a bail memorandum   
   filed by Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Barnes.   
      
   Buck allegedly refused to render aid to the man, who eventually   
   fled from the apartment and called 911 from a nearby gas   
   station, according to the document. The 37-year-old man suffered   
   an overdose but survived, authorities said.   
      
   Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, has denied that his client —   
   who allegedly was present at the location when the earlier fatal   
   overdoses occurred — had any involvement in either death. He   
   declined to comment on the newly filed case.   
      
   Buck, 65, was charged with one felony count each of battery   
   causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and   
   maintaining a drug house, the District Attorney’s Office   
   announced Tuesday evening after Buck’s arrest. He is scheduled   
   to appear in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom for arraignment   
   Thursday.   
      
   If convicted as charged, Buck faces a possible prison sentence   
   of five years and eight months, according to the District   
   Attorney’s Office.   
      
   In a statement posted on Twitter, Rep. Karen Bass, D-Los   
   Angeles, wrote, “It’s incomprehensible to me that it took a   
   third man to be attacked and almost die to finally dissolve the   
   unconscionable apathy that has allowed Ed Buck, a racist sexual   
   predator, to roam free … Thanks to the tireless work of   
   advocates and a community that has had enough, Los Angeles is a   
   safer place. Now, justice must finally be served.”   
      
   Los Angeles County Democratic Party Chair Mark J. Gonzalez also   
   spoke out about Buck’s arrest: “For our community, a predator   
   with a Jekyll and Hyde personality is now off the streets,” he   
   said in a statement. “And it is due to the ongoing support and   
   pressure from many activists and community groups including   
   Black Lives Matter, Jasmyne Cannick, and more.”   
      
   Cannick, a political consultant who has served as a spokeswoman   
   for Moore’s mother, has long pushed for Buck’s arrest and   
   prosecution. On Thursday, after Buck’s arrest on federal   
   charges, Cannick said she is “incredibly grateful and thankful   
   that something is finally being done” about Buck. She said that   
   with Bucks’ arrest, “the life expectancy of black gay men in Los   
   Angeles County just increased substantially.”   
      
   The allegations against Buck got nationwide coverage after it   
   was reported that he had donated roughly $116,000 to Democratic   
   causes and candidates, including Barack Obama and Hillary   
   Clinton. They also attracted particular attention from right-   
      
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