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Democratic donor Ed Buck cites coronavirus and gum disease as he asks to be released on bail and offers to put up $400K bond over charges of giving drugs to a man who died at his West Hollywood apartment

Ed Buck, the Democratic party donor in whose house two men died of drug overdoses, is planning to ask to be released from jail and await trial from home.

On Friday, at a bail reconsideration hearing, Buck's defense attorneys are set to argue that Buck, 66, is at high-risk of contracting coronavirus if he remains locked up.     

According to court papers obtained by City News Service, Buck says he is willing to pay a $400,000 signature bond as well as be electronically monitored and confined to his home. 

The attorneys also argue that Buck suffers from gum disease and needs specialized cardiac care that the criminal justice system is unable to provide.

But federal prosecutors are against his release, saying Buck is a fight risk and he represents a potential danger to the public.  

Ed Buck is expected to be asked to be released from jail at a bail reconsideration hearing on Friday due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pictured: Buck appears in Los Angeles Superior Court on September 19

Ed Buck is expected to be asked to be released from jail at a bail reconsideration hearing on Friday due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pictured: Buck appears in Los Angeles Superior Court on September 19

Buck is charged with nine federal counts, including giving drugs to 26-year-old Gemmel Moore (pictured), who died of an overdose at Buck's West Hollywood home in July 2017Another count alleges that Buck enticed Moore (pictured) to travel to engage in prostitution

Buck is charged with nine federal counts, including giving drugs to 26-year-old Gemmel Moore (left and right), who died of an overdose at Buck's West Hollywood home in July 2017. Another count alleges that Buck enticed Moore to travel to engage in prostitution 

District attorneys say Buck has a history of luring men to his apartment, injecting them with drugs and then performing sexual acts with the victims. Pictured: Protesters argue for the arrest of Buck outside his apartment, January 2019

District attorneys say Buck has a history of luring men to his apartment, injecting them with drugs and then performing sexual acts with the victims. Pictured: Protesters argue for the arrest of Buck outside his apartment, January 2019

Since 2017, two African-American men have been found dead from drug overdoses in Buck's West Hollywood home.

Prosecutors allege Buck would bring the black men to his home and then inject them with crystal methamphetamine for sexual gratification.

In July 2017, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore, who was working as an escort, was found dead in Buck's apartment, lying naked on a mattress in the living room.

Just a year-and-a-half later, in January 2019, a second man, 55-year-old Timothy Michael Dean, was found dead in Buck's home. 

Buck was arrested in September 2019, and charged with three counts of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house.

In August 2020, a federal grand jury charged Buck with four additional felonies, bringing the total number of federal charges to nine counts.

This includes a count alleging Buck knowingly enticed Moore to travel to engage in prostitution as well as another man. 

He is also charged with one count of knowingly and intentionally distributing meth and one count of using his home to distribute meth as well as the sedatives gamma hydroxybutyric acid and clonazepam.   

Prosecutors say Buck 'engaged in a pattern of soliciting men to consume drugs that Buck provided and perform sexual acts at apartment,' according the court papers viewed by City News Service.

He allegedly met victims on gay dating websites and social media platforms, and even hired a recruiter to scout men for him. 

Buck, 66, says he will pay a $400,000 signature bond, and consent to being electrically monitored and confined to his home, but prosecutors say he is a flight risk. Pictured: Buck with Hillary Clinton, September 2015

Buck, 66, says he will pay a $400,000 signature bond, and consent to being electrically monitored and confined to his home, but prosecutors say he is a flight risk. Pictured: Buck with Hillary Clinton, September 2015

If convicted of the narcotics charges, Buck faces a minimum of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life without the possibility of parole. Pictured: Buck appears in Los Angeles Superior Court on September 19

If convicted of the narcotics charges, Buck faces a minimum of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life without the possibility of parole. Pictured: Buck appears in Los Angeles Superior Court on September 19

When the men arrived at his apartment, Buck would allegedly fill syringes with meth and inject the victims with or without their consent.

If found guilty of the narcotics charges, Buck faces a minimum of 20 years in federal prison and a maximum of life without parole.

The trial is currently scheduled for January 19, 2021.   

He also faces charged in Los Angeles County for allegedly running a drug den out of his apartment, but the federal trial will take place first.

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