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July 28, 2021

Democratic Donor Ed Buck Found Guilty in Death of Two Men He Injected with Drugs
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Democratic Party donor and political activist Ed Buck has been found
guilty on nine felonies, including running a drug house and injecting
two gay Black men with methamphetamine who then died of an overdose.
Twenty-six-year-old Gemmel Moore died in 2017, and 55-year-old Timothy
Dean died in 2019. Buck was arrested two years ago after a third man
overdosed on methamphetamine at his apartment. That man survived. Black
LGBTQ+ activists and the family members of the men who died had for
months been calling on prosecutors to file criminal charges against
Buck, accusing him of being a sexual predator. Buck faces a mandatory
minimum sentence of 20 years in prison, with a maximum life sentence.


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