Recently unearthed documents have revealed more details surrounding Ed Buck, a wealthy Democratic donor, who was convicted in 2021 on nine federal felonies for supplying methamphetamine to two men with whom he was sleeping. According to prosecutors, he lured vulnerable, often homeless men to his house for “party and play” sessions, involving drugs and sex with dubious consent.
For context, Ed Buck was highly connected to the DNC and contributed over $500,000 to Democratic candidates, including infamous figures like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Ted Lieu, Adam Schiff, and Gavin Newsom.
Providing commentary on the case, after Buck was convicted, Jasmyne Cannick, a political strategist who organized protests, said, “As much as this case is about Ed Buck, it’s also about our housing crisis, and what it makes people feel they have to do — play Russian roulette with their lives just to have a roof over their heads.”
Providing additional context, she said, “Our lives matter, our community matters, and just because someone is unhoused, an addict, may be a survival sex worker, or an escort, or HIV positive does not mean their lives don’t matter and we should look the other way when they show up dead in a white Democratic donor’s home.”
Slamming the despicable criminal, Chelsea Norell, an assistant US attorney, said, “Buck used his money and privilege to exploit the wealth and power imbalances between himself and his victims, who were unhoused, destitute, and/or struggling with addiction,” adding, “He spent thousands of dollars on drugs and party and play sessions that destroyed lives and bred insidious addictions.”
The same attorney said that Buck’s lack of remorse was “aptly captured in one image: as he was hiding out in a hotel, evading arrest for Gemmel Moore’s death, he was injecting Dane Brown, another young Black man, with back-to-back slams of methamphetamine.”
However, Buck’s attorneys asked for leniency and a 10-year sentence, rather than “relegating him to death in prison.” Defending himself, the criminal said, “I ask that the court take a look at my life in total,” not “the horrible caricature the government painted me as: a meth-fueled axe killer”.
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Reacting to the conviction, one of the men victimized by Buck said, “I didn’t think I was going to be believed. I’m so relieved that these families can get the justice that they deserve because they’re the ones who suffered pain more than I did,” he said. “I made it out alive, but they’re suffering because they had to lose someone.”
On social media, conservatives reacted to the conviction with joy and horror. DC Draino posted, “Ed Buck was convicted in 2021 of 9 federal charges, including the deaths of Gemmel Moore & Tim Dean Buck would lure young, Black gay men to his apartment, where he would inject them w/crystal meth for sexual gratification 2 died Here he is with his censured friend Adam Schiff.”
Speaking on the same topic, another user wrote, “He was only charged for two. Ed Buck, Adam Schiff, and Ted Lieu all hung out at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, preying on young men. It would be interesting to see how much Taxpayer money was spent paying off Sexual claims for CA representatives.”