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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ed Buck sentenced in drug deaths case
2022-04-15
[FOXLA] 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.

Ed Buck
...Big time Dem donor accused of being a homosexual predator. By the time the third party boy corpse is found OD'd in your house you need a really good lawyer really bad...
, who was found guilty last year of nine felony counts, faced between 20 years and life in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

In a sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors said he lured young Black men who were often experiencing homelessness, addiction, and/or poverty to his apartment for sexually charged sessions in which he would inject them with methamphetamine and drug them with sedatives, with and without their consent.

"Buck's insatiable appetite for injecting people turned lethal twice," according to the memo, which recommends a life sentence.

"He will be a danger to the community until the day he dies," Assistant U.S. Attorney Chelsea Norell told the court.

Before he was sentenced, Buck spoke briefly to U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder, and apologized "for my part in the tragic deaths of Gemmel and Timothy."

"These are men I cared for and loved," Buck said. "I did not cause their deaths."

He asked Snyder to "look at the good in my life," saying he is not the caricature of a "meth-fueled ax killer" that the government portrayed him to be.

Snyder called the case "one of the most difficult and tragic" she has ever presided over.

"These lives mattered," she said. "What happened here was reprehensible conduct."
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Ed Buck: 2021-07-07 WaPo Promotes the Sexual Grooming of Children
Posted by:Fred

#7  It is nice to read a story about Dem pols that does not involve perving on kids.

Yeah, they were just decades younger than him, and the stories described his fetish as involving drugging them, not what he did afterwards.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-04-15 13:25  

#6  The Pervert Party.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-04-15 11:32  

#5  It is nice to read a story about Dem pols that does not involve perving on kids.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-04-15 08:09  

#4  Adam Schiff fanboi
Posted by: Frank G   2022-04-15 06:56  

#3  He's nearly 70 and will likely be pardoned soon due to medical necessity. The Washington D.C. community sticks together, just ask any of the visitors to Little St James Island.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-04-15 06:13  

#2  Democratic donor Ed Buck, 67, is jailed for 30 years: Judge slams his 'horrific and reprehensible' preying on gay black men at drug-fueled Hollywood sex parties where two overdosed and died

Posted by: Skidmark   2022-04-15 05:57  

#1  Imagine how long a republican would have lasted, trying tis stuff.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2022-04-15 00:50  

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