Thursday, September 19, 2019

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S HOUSE OF PERVS - NO, NOT JUST HARVEY WEINSTEIN

Democratic Donor Ed Buck Accused Of Running A Drug Den After A 3rd Man ODs


Activist and political donor Ed Buck is facing criminal charges after a third man was found to have overdosed on methamphetamine in his apartment. Buck was arrested Tuesday night.
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Updated at 11:40 a.m. ET
Los Angeles County prosecutors say they have charged Democratic donor and LGBTQ activist Ed Buck with running a drug house and other crimes after a man overdosed on methamphetamine at Buck's apartment last week. The man survived, but two other men have died from overdoses at Buck's apartment in the past two years.
Buck was arrested Tuesday night — after months in which activists and relatives of the men who died have called for criminal charges related to the suspicious circumstances around the deaths of 26-year-old Gemmel Moore in 2017 and 55-year-old Timothy Michael Dean in January.
Buck, who is 65, is now facing felony counts of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house.
If convicted, he could face a maximum sentence of five years and eight months in state prison, said Greg Risling, the assistant chief of media relations for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
The most recent overdose took place on Sept. 11. Prosecutors say Buck injected a 37-year-old man with methamphetamine at Buck's apartment on Laurel Avenue in West Hollywood. The man suffered an overdose but survived.


Advocates for Moore and Dean have long accused Buck of being a sexual predator who lured gay, at-risk black men to his home in West Hollywood. As member station KCRW reported this summer, Buck is alleged to have pressured men to do drugs, particularly crystal meth.
When Moore died, police say they found drug paraphernalia littered around the scene in Buck's home, including syringes, pipes and plastic bags. The coroner blamed the death on an accidental overdose, but a homicide inquiry was launched after Moore's journal was published weeks later. In it, Moore blamed Buck for introducing him to methamphetamine.
"I honestly don't know what to do. I've become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that," Moore wrote, according to his family's website. He added, "Ed Buck is the one to thank."
Prosecutors opted not to file charges against Buck related to Moore's death. Earlier this year, Moore's mother, LaTisha Nixon, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Buck and Los Angeles County officials. She says Dean's death could have been avoided if authorities had charged Buck in 2017.
For more than two years, activists have said Buck wasn't charged with a crime because he is white, wealthy and politically connected. Now they're welcoming news that he has been arrested.
"We're just completely ecstatic," writer and activist Jasmyne Cannick said via Twitter. "Black gay men's lives matter. The whole black LGBT community is going to be celebrating this evening because our lives matter."
Cannick, who has pointedly accused prosecutors and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department of failing to stop a violent predator, says she has collected a trove of evidence against Buck, publishing interviews and other materials online. The next step, in her view, is for him to face additional charges related to the deaths of Moore and Dean.
After Dean died earlier this year, Buck's attorney, Seymour Amster, insisted his client is innocent of any crimes.
"This is not a situation where Mr. Buck has caused a death," Amster said. "This is a situation where Mr. Buck has had longtime friends who unfortunately do not handle their life well."
Prosecutors are recommending that bail for Buck should be set at $4 million.
"I remain deeply concerned for the safety of people whose life circumstances may make them more vulnerable to criminal predators," Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said, adding that new evidence from the recent overdose of the 37-year-old man at Buck's apartment had prompted her to approve filing charges against Buck.
Buck has donated thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and organizations. According to the donor tracking site Open Secrets, some of his largest contributions have been to the Getting Stuff Done PAC, a political action committee based in Phoenix.

Nolte: Democrats’ Creepy Trio of Donors — Ed Buck, Terry Bean, and Jeffrey Epstein

Combo of Ed Buck, Jeffrey Epstein, and Terry Bean
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We now have three high-profile Democrat donors arrested and/or charged with heinous sex crimes, and all three rubbed elbows with high-ranking Democrats, including presidents.

In November 2014, prominent Democrat donor, pro-abortion and gay rights activist Terry Bean was arrested and charged with two counts of third-degree sodomy and one count of third-degree sexual abuse involving more than one minor.
Breitbart News reported at the time that “Bean has pictures of himself talking with Obama on his Flickr account. He also has shots of himself with Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi.
According to local news reported, “Obama called Bean a ‘great friend and supporter.’ The president in 2012 hosted Bean on Air Force One, and when Obama visits Oregon, Bean has had the honor of greeting him as the president gets off his plane.”
Also indicted was the then-66-year-old’s 20-something boyfriend for third-degree sodomy and third-degree sexual abuse.
This alleged crime involved a 15-year-old boy whom police said the two men used social media to lure to a hotel.
Eventually, some $220,000 changed hands, the alleged victim refused to testify, and the charges were dropped.
Fast forward to January of this year, and Bean, now 70, was again indicted on two counts of sodomy in the third degree and one count of sexual abuse in the third degree for the same crime. Apparently, the alleged victim was ripped off and now wants his day in court.
In May, Michelle Malkin reported, a “second alleged juvenile victim of Bean’s came forward with a civil lawsuit alleging the Democrat donor sexually abused him three times when he was 17.”
Of course, Ed Buck makes Bean look like an Eagle Scout.
On Tuesday, this prominent Democrat donor and gay activist was arrested for his third — third! — incident of “sex play in his home [, which] almost turned fatal, according to authorities.”
Prominent Democratic donor and LGBTQ political activist Ed Buck was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house, with prosecutors calling him a violent sexual predator who preys on men struggling with addiction and homelessness.
Buck was charged with one count each of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Buck is accused of injecting a 37-year-old man, who overdosed but survived, with methamphetamine on Sept. 11.
That latest incident comes after two men were found dead in his Laurel Avenue apartment in West Hollywood. In both cases, African American men — Gemmel Moore, 26, and Timothy Dean, 55 — had overdosed on methamphetamine inside. After the first death in 2017, authorities said there was insufficient evidence to file charges.
It’s worth noting that Democrats only started distancing themselves from Buck after the second young man died in his house. Democrats called it The Ted Kennedy Rule — where anyone who furthers the cause gets one.
Prosecutors say,  “In a position of power, Buck manipulates his victims into participating in his sexual fetishes. His long-reported particular kink — injecting men with dangerous doses of illegal drugs — “nearly killed a third victim last week,”
Prosecutors also say that Buck, a white man, targets homeless black men. Two of these three alleged victims were found dead in Buck’s home.
Then why did it take three of these incidents for Buck to finally get arrested?
Democrats sure got it good.
Oh, and here’s a photo of Buck and no less than Hillary Clinton. They sure do look cozy showing off their bow ties.
Next up, the late Jeffrey Epstein. Although our fake news media tried their best to hang Epstein around President Trump’s neck, the truth is that Trump banished Epstein from his life and properties long before, say, MIT and Harvard.
As far as Democrats and left-wing organizations accepting money from a man charged with sex-trafficking dozens of underage girls, Epstein donated thousands of dollars from 1990 until 2018, according to OpenSecrets.org. A total of $184,276 was donated to Democrats and left-wing organizations, compared to just $18,250 to Republicans and right-leaning groups during this same time.
In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to felony sexual solicitation of underage girls. He was released after a 13-month prison term and then resumed his donations, almost exclusively to Democrats.
It is Epstein’s creepy, longstanding relationship with the Clintons, though, that makes one’s skin crawl. The Guardian reported that in 2006, “the year after he was arrested following a complaint he sexually abused a 14-year-old teenager in Florida,” Epstein donated $25,000 to the now-disgraced Clinton Foundation.
Between 2001 and 2003, when Epstein’s alleged predations were apparently no secret in certain elite circles, Fox News reported that Bill Clinton took at least 26 trips aboard Epstein’s jet, dubbed the “Lolita Express.”
Clinton claims he only took four trips on the Lolita Express, as if that’s no big deal, but the documentation says 26 — 26 trips over three years, which is one about every six weeks!

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