Democratic donor Ed Buck has been indicted by a federal grand jury on narcotics distribution offenses, including two counts of distributing methamphetamine resulting in death, according to prosecutors.
The prominent 65-year-old donor was named this week in a five-count indictment that alleges Buck provided meth to Gemmel Moore, who overdosed on the drug and died on July 27, 2017. He also allegedly provided the drug to Timothy Dean, who suffered a fatal overdose in Buck's Los Angeles area apartment on January 7, 2019.Each charge alleging distribution of narcotics resulting in death carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life without parole.
It described Buck as a wealthy white man who"had a predatory and injurious system of soliciting Black men and watching them cling to life."Moore and Dean were black.Democratic donor Ed Buck is being sued by the mother of a man found dead in his homeThe lawsuit accused Buck of wrongful death, sexual battery and assault, and said he had not yet been prosecuted"because he is white, and because Mr. Moore was Black.
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