Ed Buck Served In Fetish Killings!

Money will not buy this sexual predator an out.

A former Democratic donor and hedge fund investor is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. He is responsible for allowing men he dated and solicited for sex die from drug overdoses. He would often dress male prostitutes in hooker boots, long johns and mini skirts. The predator gives them methamphetamine and cocaine before he have sex with them. 

The predator would allow them to get high while he rapes them. If they overdosed, he would just ignore them.

The men did not need the sexual predator’s help — they needed to be saved from him, said federal prosecutors in Los Angeles said. Some barely escaped with their lives. Two men didn’t.

The sexual predator a wealthy gay white donor to Democratic, LGBTQ and animal rights causes, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to 30 years in federal prison for injecting two men with lethal doses of methamphetamine as part of a fetish that turned fatal.

Prosecutors, who sought a life term, said the predator had such disregard for life that even after the two deaths in his apartment, he did not stop paying men to come to his home and injecting them with walloping doses of methamphetamine. One man overdosed twice in the course of a week.

“This defendant preyed upon vulnerable victims — men who were drug-dependent and often without homes — to feed an obsession that led to death and misery,” United States Attorney Tracy L. Wilkison said. “Mr. Buck continues to pose a clear danger to society.”

The predator was convicted in July of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in the deaths of Gemmel Moore in 2017 and Timothy Dean in 2019. He was also convicted of four counts of meth distribution, two counts of enticing men to travel across state lines for prostitution and a count of maintaining a drug den.

He supplied the dope and drag.

The predator managed to avoid arrest for more than two years after Moore’s death and family and community members led by political strategist Jasmyne Cannick complained that he escaped prosecution because of wealth, political ties and race. He donated more than $500,000 since 2000 to mainly Democratic causes.

Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, joined Cannick and several other friends and family members of the deceased to ask the judge for the maximum sentence. Nixon, a certified nursing assistant who said she had prayed with and comforted countless dying people, broke down as she thought of the way her oldest child died.

“All I can think about is how my son died naked on a mattress with no love around him,” Nixon said. “No one to hold his hand or tell him good things.”

Defense lawyer Mark Werksman sought a 10-year term — half of the mandatory minimum of 20 years the predator faced and well below the 25 years recommended by the probation department. He said the predator’s sexual abuse as a child and health problems that led to his drug addiction were mitigating factors.

He said prosecutors had cast the predator as a “sociopathic syringe-wielding sexual predator and sexual deviant who preys on homeless drug-addicted male prostitutes and kills them by recklessly overdosing them on methamphetamine.”

“But there’s a second Ed Buck, a redeemable, a worthy, a valuable Ed Buck who deserves this court’s compassion and mercy,” Werksman said.

The predator made his first public remarks since his arrest in September 2019, apologizing for “my part in the tragic deaths” of Moore and Dean, whom he said were friends he loved. In a husky voice, he said he had not caused their deaths but expressed condolences to their families — something they said he never did after their deaths.

The predator worked as a model and then made a small fortune selling an Arizona company he rescued from bankruptcy, said he tried to live a good life devoted to political causes that would make his world a better place.

His political activism began with efforts in 1987 to recall Republican Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham, who was ultimately convicted in an impeachment trial and kicked out of office. The predator said he started an AIDS information organization in the 1980s, marched for gay and human rights and championed a ban on fur sales in West Hollywood.

“Look at the good I have done and the good I may still do and not the horrible caricature that the government painted me as a meth-fueled ax killer,” the predator said. “That’s not who I am.”

Judge Christina Snyder said the case was one of the most difficult and tragic ones she had presided over. She said the predator’s “horrific crimes” were reprehensible and more than just an accident.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Chelsea Norell objected to the 30-year sentence, arguing that the mandatory minimum sentences for each death add up to 40 years.

“He is effectively getting one kill and one kill 50% off,” Norell said.

Family members of Dean and Moore said they were disappointed he didn’t get a life sentence but were happy the predator was going away for a long time. They said his apology had come too late to seem sincere.

“That’s not love when you kill someone,” said Dean’s sister, Joann Campbell. “That was just something he was saying ... to get some sympathy from the judge. But I don’t believe and buy any of it.”

Even after Dean’s death, the predator remained undeterred, Norell said. Holed up in a hotel to avoid the police, he injected Dane Brown with back-to-back “slams” of methamphetamine.

Brown, who was homeless, later moved into the predator’s apartment, where he was injected with meth most days and often several times a day.

On Sept. 4, 2019, after the predator shot him up three times with back-to-back doses, Brown was hospitalized for overdosing. He had five times the meth in his system that Moore and Dean had when they died, prosecutors said.

The far right loves to tie every crime to Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Brown returned less than a week later and the predator injected him three times with meth. Brown said he was overdosing again. He was exhausted and weak but the predator wouldn’t call an ambulance.

“I can’t run, I can’t move and it’s like all my energy was being sapped out,” Brown recalled Thursday outside court.

That’s when he heard the voice of his late mother tell him to get up.

“At that last moment, right when I was giving up and closed my eyes, I heard the voice,” Brown said. “It’s like she lit a fire and told me to get out and get out now.”

Brown managed to get himself to a nearby gas station and was taken to the hospital. It was that incident that finally led to the predator’s arrest.

If he hadn’t made it out of the predator’s apartment, Brown said he would have died there like Moore and Dean.