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May 2007 kidnap victims

lachungsf — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:56:30 +0000

A mother and adult daughter were followed from an Oakland bingo parlor and kidnapped on May 17, 2007. Taken to a home on Avenal Avenue that was owned by a member of Yusuf Ali Bey’s extended clan, the daughter was allegedly taken into the house and tortured in attempt to extract information about where she and an associate [...]

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Mary Fricker

lachungsf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:19:07 +0000

Mary Fricker, investigative journalist ; photo credit: Santa Rosa Press DemocratMary Fricker is an investigative journalist volunteering for the Chauncey Bailey Project. Fricker, an award-winning reporter, worked more than 20 years covering business for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. She has won the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award and, with investigative reporters Stephen [...]

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Ali Saleem Bey

lachungsf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:18:56 +0000

Ali Saleem Bey turned out to be the unidentified source for Chauncey Bailey’s investigation into Your Black Muslim Bakery’s finances. Days after the Oakland Post editor was gunned down on a downtown street in August 2007, Ali Saleem Bey stepped forward to shed more light on the story Bailey was working on. Known as [...]

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Ronald Allen

lachungsf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:18:24 +0000

Ronald Ronnell Allen drove a delivery truck for Your Black Muslim Bakery. He was 31 when his body turned up at Berkeley’s bayside dump in April 12, 1982. His head had been nearly blown off by a shotgun. Berkeley police reopened the unsolved case in December 2007 in the wake of the slaying of Oakland Post editor Chauncey [...]

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Waajid Aljawwaad Bey

lachungsf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:17:48 +0000

Waajid Aljawwaad Bey was the trusted adviser of Yusuf Ali Bey, the founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery. In fact, the 51-year-old accountant and bakery business manager was so close to Bey that the ailing patriarch named him his successor as he lay dying of cancer in September 2003. Born Carl Hambrick, he grew up [...]

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Daulet Bey

lachungsf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:17:33 +0000

Daulet Bey, 50, is the mother of eight children of the late Yusuf Ali Bey. Two of her sons, Antar and Yusuf Ali Bey IV, successively took control of Your Black Muslim Bakery and its enterprises after the elder Bey’s handpicked successor mysteriously disappeared and then turned up dead in the Oakland hills. Born Diane [...]

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Farieda Bey

lachungsf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:17:19 +0000

Farieda Parveen Bey was Yusuf Ali Bey’s legal wife for more than 20 years. She was also known as Bernice O. Stephens, owing to her marriage to Bey when he used his given name, Joseph Stephens. Farieda Bey bore three of Bey’s 42 children, and held various positions in family-related businesses. Farieda Bey and one of Bey’s spiritual [...]

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Antron Thurman

lachungsf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:17:08 +0000

Antron Thurman, also known as Tony Donald, has been involved in several questionable Bay Area real estate deals with his wife, Esperanza Johnson. Johnson lived and worked at Your Black Muslim Bakery for 20 years and bore three of founder Yusuf Ali Bey’s 42 children. Among a half-dozen cases in which Thurman or Johnson have [...]

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Esperanza Johnson

lachungsf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:16:52 +0000

Esperanza Johnson is the birth name of one of the spiritual wives of Yusuf Ali Bey, founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery, but she is known by many others. Using the Johnson name, she and her current husband, Antron Thurman, have been linked to allegations of more than a half-dozen questionable real estate deals. No [...]

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John Muhammad Bey

lachungsf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:16:35 +0000

John Muhammad Bey, 44 is the former head of UD Security, part of the multi-faceted empire of Your Black Muslim Bakery. Born John Garin Ayers, he was a “spiritually adopted son” and old-guard confidante of bakery founder Yusuf Ali Bey I, who built a business empire of bakery outlets, dry cleaning and security companies in [...]

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