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Book soon to be released on Bailey murder(1)

January 24, 2012

A book recounting the dawn, growth and murderous crescendo of Oakland’s Your Black Muslim Bakery is about to hit the stands, penned by one of the Chauncey Bailey Project’s lead reporters and adding new details to the sensational case.

Book soon to be released on Bailey murder
Chauncey Bailey murder: ‘Justice has finally been done’

Chauncey Bailey murder: ‘Justice has finally been done’

OAKLAND — Nearly four years after Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was gunned down on his morning walk to work, a jury convicted the former leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery of murder for ordering the journalist’s assassination. Yusuf Bey IV — who a prosecutor said terrorized Oakland — will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

Reporter gets new death threat while investigating fraud allegations against Your Black Muslim Bakery associate

Reporter gets new death threat while investigating fraud allegations against Your Black Muslim Bakery associate

OAKLAND — A Chauncey Bailey Project reporter received a death threat Thursday while working on a story about a former Your Black Muslim Bakery member embroiled in a series of alleged real estate scams. “If you write that story, you are going to end up like your friend Chauncey,” a male caller told Josh Richman, 40, a legal and political affairs journalist for the Bay Area News Group.

Allegations of real estate fraud dog former associate of Your Black Muslim Bakery

Even as the murder trial of the former Your Black Muslim Bakery’s last chief executive progresses, a former bakery associate is the subject of several civil lawsuits accusing him of fraud. Jamall Joseph Robinson, 25, also known as Yasir Hakeem Azzem or Jamal Bey, is being sued for real estate fraud in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.


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