Political donor Ed Buck convicted of offering drugs for sex, leading to two overdose deaths

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."