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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has aggressively pushed back against the alleged endorsement of a longtime Democratic donor accused of fatally drugging gay black men in his home, calling his inclusion on a list of hundreds of endorsers from President Barack Obama’s campaigns and administration the work of apparent hoaxers.

Ed Buck was listed as the 39th entry in the list of 231 Obama alumni who endorsed Warren’s campaign for the White House, part of a signature-gathering operation organized by Obama alumni Jon Carson, a national field director for Obama’s 2008 campaign who later joined the administration, and Sara El-Amine, the former national director of Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Many of the signatories on the list, released on Wednesday, are current high-level staffers on Warren’s campaign, including chief strategist Joe Rospars, senior adviser Emily Parcell, and national political director Rebecca Pearcey.

Buck was arrested in September in connection with the overdose of a man in his West Hollywood home, the site of two previous overdoses of gay black men since 2017. Both of those incidents were fatal, and, prosecutors allege, part of a “malevolent” pattern of serially targeting poor, housing-insecure gay black men and injecting them with dangerously high doses of crystal meth.

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