Posted on 08/10/2007 10:51:16 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, says she's ending her longtime support of the Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland and would have ended her support sooner if she'd known it had problems.
The bakery has been in the news in the past eight days because Oakland police and other agencies raided it on Aug. 3 and arrested seven members and shut it down for health and safety violations.
On Thursday, a federal bankruptcy court judge refused a request by a lawyer for the bakery, Fayedine Coulter, to reverse his previous decision to liquidate the bakery.
In a motion filed with the bankruptcy court on Tuesday, Coulter said the bakery had obtained Lee's assistance.
Coulter said, "Congresswoman Lee considers the bakery to be an asset and institution of the community and has offered her assistance in facilitating the resolution of issues with the Internal Revenue Service by directing the debtor to the proper source in order to keep the bakery functioning."
Among those arrested in the raid last week was the bakery's handyman, 19-year-old Devaughndre Broussard, who told Oakland police that he killed veteran Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey, 57, the day before because he was upset that Bailey was researching a story on the bakery's financial woes.
Also arrested were Yusuf Bey IV, 21, the grandson of bakery founder Yusuf Bey, and two other bakers associates on charges that they kidnapped and tortured two women in Oakland in May.
In a statement issued late Thursday, Lee said, "At the request of representatives of Your Black Muslim Bakery, my office provided a letter to a federal agency related to the bankruptcy."
Lee said, "Like many people, I historically supported the bakery because it has been an important institution in the community, but it is clear that this is no longer the case."
Lee said, "Knowing what I know now, we would not have provided such support, and we are reviewing our casework intake process in an effort to avoid any such circumstance in the future."
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums also wrote a letter on the business' behalf this summer.
Problems associated with key people at the bakery date back to at least 2003.
Yusuf Bey, who founded the bakery in 1968, was charged with raping and having sex with minors but died in October 2003 before he could stand trial.
At a news conference after last week's raid, Oakland police Lt. Ersie Joyner said he believes Bey's death set off a struggle over power over the bakery's operations and triggered at least several murders which remain unsolved.
Bey's successor, Waajid Aliawaad, 51, disappeared in March 2004 and his body was found months later in a shallow grave in the Oakland hills.
Antar Bey, the patriarch's son, took over but was killed during an attempted carjacking as he was filling the tank of his BMW 745, a custom-made car worth at least $75,000, at a gas station at the corner of Martin Luther King Way and 56th Street on Oct. 25, 2005.
Yusuf Bey IV then took over the bakery's operations, but one month later he was arrested and charged with leading vandalism attacks on two West Oakland liquor stores.
Bey and four other men are still waiting trial on charges stemming from those incidents.
Two other men pleaded no contest to felony vandalism and were sentenced to probation.
One of them, 21-year-old Tamon Halfin, was arrested in the raid last week and is charged in connection with the kidnapping and torture incident that Bey allegedly masterminded.
Bey was arrested again in February 2006 and charged with using phony identification and phony credit to obtain a $55,000 luxury car from a Vallejo used-car lot.
Two months later, he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly trying to use his BMW to run down several bouncers after being thrown out of a San Francisco strip club.
Asked today if Lee should have known about problems at the bakery before the events of the last eight days, her spokesman, Nathan Britton, said, "In hindsight."
Ahhhh Barbara ... I always thought you lived in another universe.
That or brain dead, deaf, blind ... words fail me.
How wrong would I be to assume she didn’t know, because she didn’t want to know. And she didn’t want to know, because she agreed with their program and pogrom.
Did the Congresscritter “know” that the bakery’s founder was a child rapist? (ok, “alleged”, whatever, blah blah)
If a Republican were in this position, he’d be urged to resign by the nauseating Lee and the idiot Pelosi.
Why do I have the sense she feels this is especially true now?
I hope everyone has their hip boots on ‘cuz it’s gonna get much deeper with both Lee and Dellums and others in local political office as well as our local bureaucrats bail and backpedal.
I spoke with a Cop (Sgt) who was on the raid.
His points:
1. The raid had been scheduled before the murder took place.
2. Only a few top brass in the OPD knew it was coming.
3. They wish it had been a few days sooner.
4. They strongly suspect the 19 year old was “making his bones”.
Yes Mayor Dellums and Rep Lee - the OPD did not tell you what was about to go down. I wonder why?
Translation: There’s too much media scrutiny on this terrorist organization right now, so it’s in my political interest to distance myself from it.
ROFLMAO
Just in case there anybody out there who just fell off a turnip truck and doesn't know that this crime syndicate has been notorious for decades, here's a primer on the situation:
Blood & Money, Part 2
How Official Oakland Kept the Bey Empire Going
Published: November 20, 2002
“Lee lied, people died. Oh, wait. . . .she didn’t actually lie; she was just too damn dumb to know what was going on. Great.”
Makes one sick to see all the “Barbara Lee Speaks For Me” bumper stickers around Oakland.
I wonder if they will be coming off now or if the fools who display them will proudly continue their support for her while they collect their welfare checks.
“here’s a primer on the situation:”
Good stuff and as you say “a primer” - tip of the iceberg.
Thanks for digging it out - facts vs my rants!
Hell, - Senate President pro Tem Don Perata of the Kalifornicate Senate has DOCUMENTED his adoration of the rapist criminal leadership of Oakland’s primary black Muslim crime family....
Taxpayers, through the “blackmail” and corrupt payoffs from DEMOCRAT politicians in Kalifornicate have been financiers, protectors, apologists and enablers of these criminals for DECADES...
Any politician who denies knowledge of their background is a liar and worse....
Barbara Lee is a Communist, Liar, black racist and enemy of the Republic — any community who would elect the bitch deserves the contempt of every law abiding American...
Barbara, please.
Most people in the SF Bay Area are exceedingly stupid and uninformed. They don’t know what’s going on outside of their own personal bubbles. They just vote for whomever they are told to by “the smart people,” as though they have an obligation. This whole region is hopelessly diseased by group think which is at its core motivated by fear of public humiliation and social rejection. Exploiting that is how the Democrats keep their flock in line, and the only way they can ever win an election. It is why they are so hateful and aggressive. People are afraid to be on the other end of that. They’d rather take the path of least resistance. Besides, it must be OK, because everyone else is doing it.
Your Black Muslim Bakery...a real little shop of horrors.
Savages.
It would be a very public urging.
Honestly, I can’t disagree with a single word of that. Nice work. :)
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