Ed Buck, once a prominent Democratic donor, sentenced to 30 years in prison
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By Steve Almasy and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Democratic donor Ed Buck, who in 2021 was convicted by a federal jury of nine felonies, including giving methamphetamine to two men who died at his West Hollywood apartment after being injected with the drug, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, a spoke…
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Mr. Buck, 67, was once a Democratic political donor and activist who led a double life in which he lured men to parties at his apartment and drugged them with methamphetamine. Two of those parties turned fatal.
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles were seeking a life sentence for Buck, saying he preyed on the vulnerable — often young and Black men — for his sexual fetish.
Ed Buck was on trial in Los Angeles on nine felony counts, including two counts of distribution of controlled substances resulting in death, stemming from the overdose deaths of two men.
LOS ANGELES — Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine. A federal judge on Thursday sentenced him to 30 years in prison in the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean. Another man,
By Steve Almasy and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Democratic donor Ed Buck, who in 2021 was convicted by a federal jury of nine felonies, including giving methamphetamine to two men who died at his West Hollywood apartment after being injected with the drug, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, a spoke…
Democrat political donor Ed Buck prison bound; will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars for injecting people with drugs leading to two deaths.
A former Democratic political donor who supplied drugs to two men who overdosed in his West Hollywood apartment was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in federal prison.
Onetime Democratic donor Ed Buck was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday for drug and sex crimes determined to have caused the overdose deaths of two men.
