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   On Jan. 7 Los Angeles County emergency crews responding to a 911   
   call discovered a second body of a black man within less than 18   
   months (apparent cause of death in both cases: drug overdose)   
   inside the West Hollywood apartment of 63-year-old openly gay Ed   
   Buck, a man who is typically described as a “prominent” and   
   “wealthy” Democratic donor.   
      
   The Ed Buck story has prompted all sorts of questions, not the   
   least of which–raised by the family of the first overdose   
   victim, 26-year-old professional escort Gemmel Moore, who died   
   of too much crystal meth in July 2017–was how Buck had managed   
   to get off scot-free in famously liberal West Hollywood that   
   first time around (authorities declined to prosecute him for   
   anything, despite drugs and drug paraphernalia having been found   
   in his apartment at the time of Moore’s death). The answer to   
   that question seemed to be: Buck had money and political   
   connections. Plus, go away, you right-wing conspiracy-theorist   
   homophobes, nothing to see here:   
      
   [The 2017 overdose incident] has attracted a lot of attention   
   from the right-wing media here and abroad, including   
   publications such as the Drudge Report; TruNews, a Christian   
   news site; Political VelCraft, a right-wing conspiracy site, and   
   Voat.com, a website that promotes conspiracy theories such as   
   PizzaGate. Stories on those sites call out Buck’s financial   
   support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, his   
   homosexuality, his alleged attraction to young African-American   
   men and his alleged drug use.   
      
   But my Ed Buck question is a little different: How little money   
   do you have to hand over to Hillary Clinton to get your picture   
   taken with her? Not much, it seems. According to donor records,   
   Buck forked a mere $2,700 to the Dem presidential candidate in   
   2015. The cute Facebook photo above of bowtie-sporting “twins”   
   Ed and Hillary apparently ensued.   
      
   Indeed, Buck’s total political contributions over the past   
   decade seem to have failed to top $50,000 to a range of   
   candidates and PACs. The biggest beneficiary of Buck’s political   
   largess seems to have been Kyrsten Synema, onto whose victorious   
   2017 Democratic senatorial campaign in Arizona Buck dropped   
   $21,000. (Buck seems to love him some Synema, onto whose various   
   Arizona races before 2017 he spent $9,200). Otherwise, it’s been   
   dribs and drabs of $1,000 here and $1,000 there–with a $2,700   
   gift to California Dem Congressman–and major Trump-basher–Adam   
   Schiff in 2016. Buck has also made a career out of hosting fund-   
   raisers for Dem candidates at which other people make the big   
   donations.   
      
   That’s the “prominent” part of Buck’s political-donor status.   
   How about the “wealthy”? The fatal apartment–fatal for the two   
   dead men found there–where Buck lives is a one-bedroom, one-bath   
   rental unit at 1234 North Laurel Avenue in West Hollywood where   
   the going rent for a comparable in this early-1960s complex is   
   $1,750 a month. The photos accompanying this U.K. Daily Mail   
   account of the Jan. 7 body discovery, including crumbling   
   exterior baseboards, tells the story at 1234 North Laurel (Daily   
   Mail bonus: an undated photo of Buck sharing a grin with   
   California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown).   
      
   Indeed, Buck’s account of where he made his money seems…vague.   
   From an August 2017 story in West Hollywood’s online   
   neighborhood news site WeHoVille titled “Who Is Ed Buck?” (and   
   featuring a Facebook photo of the blue-eyed onetime model Buck   
   cuddling his dog apparently inside the apartment posted less   
   than two weeks after Moore’s death):   
      
   Buck [told the Arizona Republic in 1987 that] he worked for the   
   Arizona franchise of Rapid Information Services, a business   
   owned by a friend that provided driver’s license information to   
   insurance companies. Despite his lack of business experience,   
   and the business’s poor financial situation (his friend ran it   
   out of a one-bedroom apartment), Buck saw great potential in it.   
   A year and a half after joining and helping build the business,   
   Buck bought it out of bankruptcy for $250,000 and renamed it   
      
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