https://www.npr.org/2021/07/28/1021...or-ed-buck-convicted-drugs-for-sex-california Democratic Donor Ed Buck Is Convicted In Deaths Of 2 Men He Offered Drugs For Sex July 28, 202111:06 AM ET THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ed Buck appears in Los Angeles Superior Court on Sept. 19, 2019. A federal jury has convicted the wealthy political donor on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine, causing two deaths and other overdoses. Damian Dovarganes/AP LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a wealthy California political donor on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, leading to two deaths and other overdoses. Ed Buck, 66, was found guilty of all nine felony counts in federal court, which could lead to a life sentence. The verdict came exactly four years after one of the victims, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore, was found dead of an overdose in Buck's West Hollywood apartment. "Today is bittersweet," LaTisha Nixon, Moore's mother, said after the verdict. "We got victory today." LAW Democratic Donor Ed Buck Accused Of Running A Drug Den After A 3rd Man ODs The jury deliberated for more than four hours after a two-week trial. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled. Prosecutors said Buck paid men and provided drugs in return for sex acts. Buck had pleaded not guilty. His defense lawyers said neither fatal overdose victim died from meth and that many of the alleged victims were drug addicts. Buck's attorneys — one of whom was a prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case — did not immediately return a request for comment. Article continues after sponsor message 2nd Man Found Dead In Home Of Prominent Democratic Donor Ed Buck The defense contends all the men were at Buck's apartment under their own will and that Moore and Dean did not die from methamphetamine. "I know this has been an arduous, lengthy and difficult process," U.S. District Judge Christine A. Snyder told jurors after she read the verdict, according to the Los Angeles Times. One of the prosecutors dropped to her knees and wept in the courthouse hallway after the jury was dismissed, the Times reported. During the trial, Dane Brown testified that he had overdosed in Buck's apartment twice in one week in September 2019. He told investigators he had been living in a hotel on Skid Row when he met Buck on Adam4Adam, a gay dating and escort site, and moved in with him for part of summer 2019. Brown said Buck injected him with meth nearly daily for five weeks, according to court documents. After his second overdose, Brown said Buck refused to call an ambulance and Brown was forced to call 911 at a nearby gas station. "I didn't think I was going to believed," Brown said after the verdict. "Walking out of that house, I didn't know what was going to happen next."