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How the Bakery's $1 Million Vanished MONDAY December 31, 2007 ᗂ oaklandtribune.com Serving Oakland for 133 years 50 cents A BRIDGE TOO SHORT How the bakery’s $1 million vanished ᔡ Along with loan from city, pledges to help community disappeared By Cecily Burt and G.W. Schulz CHAUNCEY BAILEY PROJECT It was a noble cause: Train welfare recipients as home health aides and put them to work caring for homebound sick and elderly clients. A decade ago, while Your Black Muslim Bakery founder Yusuf Bey enjoyed unwavering support and adulation from black businesses and poli- ticians, his spiritually adopted son, Nedir Bey, pressured and shamed city leaders into giving him a $1.1 million loan to help finance the promise of black entrepreneurial independence. LAURA ODA — Staff photos But the ven- THE END of the newly completed skyway span of the Bay Bridge offers an ideal vantage point for work on the foundations of ture, E.M. Health Editor’s note: the $1.43 billion project to build the bridge’s self-anchored suspension span to connect the skyway to Yerba Buena Island. Services, swiftly .......... collapsed. The This is the first of a failure of CEO three-part series examining Skyway done, Nedir Bey to repay a $1 million city loan to a a dime of the loan Your Black Muslim Bakery made headlines at affiliate that was never re- but Bay span the time and pro- mpted most to as- paid. See videos and post sume the comments at InsideBay- won’t open company’s demise Area.com. was caused by a ....... combination of until 2012 poor business decisions, bureaucratic hurdles By Erik N. Nelson and simple bad luck. But was it? STAFF WRITER City officials overlooked flaws in the com- T MORE than $1 bil- pany’s business plans and relented to black com- lion, it was the big- munity leaders who insisted they award the loan, gest construction according to interviews, documents and other A contract that Caltrans correspondence reviewed by the Chauncey Bailey had ever awarded. It was a Project. project spawned by tragedy, The loan was granted to Nedir Bey despite his long delayed and fraught with well-publicized arrest for the torture and kidnap- controversy. ping of a man two years earlier. Bey pleaded no contest to one felony count of false imprisonment Now it’s done, and not even local officials will be there to Please see LOAN, News 5 mark the end of the Bay Bridge East Span Skyway Project. Offi- cials won’t observe the occasion of the new eastern span’s longest segment with a tradi- CALTRANS BAY BRIDGE SPOKESMAN Bart Ney stands on a catwalk to an electrical substation tional ribbon-cutting or other underneath the westbound span of the newly completed Bay Bridge skyway. The eastbound span ceremony because for the next half-decade, the skyway will be is behind him, with the 1936 steel cantilever east span’s double decks visible in the background. a bridge to nowhere. nect it to those places, said Bart span and its approach struc- Its twin viaducts, wide Ney, Caltrans bridge project tures. enough for 10 lanes and four spokesman. shoulders, will start a few feet “At the end of 2007, the from the Oakland shore and The first car isn’t expected to skyway portion of the bridge is end 2,000 feet shy of Yerba cross the new skyway until complete,” Ney announced as he Buena Island. 2012, when the 1.2-mile struc- stood on the westbound span Not that it won’t eventually ture is connected to the toll during a rare tour of both the KTOP-TV FILE go somewhere, that somewhere plaza with the Oakland Touch- interior and exterior of the new View audiovisual NEDIR BEY, a high-ranking associate of Your being San Francisco and Oak- down structure and with Yerba bridge. “Following this, the footage of Bay Bridge Black Muslim Bakery and CEO of E.M. Health land, it’s just that it needs its Buena Island with the $1.43 bil- skyway becomes the primary construction at our Web Services, lobbies the Oakland City Council shorter bridge segments to con- lion self-anchored suspension Please see BRIDGE, News 5 site, InsideBayArea.com. for business loan funds on June 4, 1996. Police recover Perata’s ...............INSIDE A CANDY-APPLE Classifieds ............................. insert RED 2006 DODGE stolen car in Richmond Legals................................. Class 3 CHARGER, Lottery ................................ News 2 similar to one Obituaries...........................Metro 3 lette drives near shown here, ᔡ No suspects yet in state Opinion ..............................Metro 4 the Hilltop Mall Wonderword.......................Living 9 was carjacked Senate leader’s carjacking in Richmond at Business.......................inside Metro Saturday from 11:11 p.m. Sat- ............... state Senate By Kristin Bender and Harry Harris urday. President Pro Perata’s cell Forecast STAFF WRITERS Tem Don Perata phone and other Mostly sunny of Oakland. Rich- RICHMOND — A sharp-eyed property were Richmond police officer on Sat- Highs: upper 50s mond police re- still in the car, Lows: upper 30s covered Per- urday night located the candy- which was in ata’s car late apple red Dodge Charger car- PERATA good condition, Details on jacked at gunpoint earlier that Saturday night. said Lt. Michael Sports 10 day from state Senate President Booker. The carjacking occurred Pro Tem Don Perata. ............... WWW.AUTOBYTEL.COM around 1:45 p.m. Saturday in Richmond police found the North Oakland. 2006 state-issued car in a resi- dential area at Wiswall and Co- Please see PERATA, News 5 MONDAY, December 31, 2007 THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE NEWS 5 Bay span won’t How a $1 million loan vanished About the series Who’s who director of Oakland’s Com- open until 2012 ៑ LOAN, from News 1 . ......... munity and Economic Devel- in E.M. Health opment Agency who inherited and was sentenced to three TODAY: E.M. Health’s $1 mil- the E.M. loan in late 1997, the skyway’s four loose ends years’ probation. .......... BRIDGE, from News 1 lion loan vanishes. said he couldn’t believe the ៑ are 20 of the massive hinge In awarding the loan to TUESDAY: E.M. Health’s debt NEDIR BEY, aka Victor pipes, each end with pro- ៑ city gave the company “a access for the Self-Anchored Nedir Bey, nearly every grows. Foster — CEO of E.M. Health dime,” let alone $1.1 million. truding utility conduits elected official lauded the ac- Suspension Span.” WEDNESDAY: Political pres- Services and high-ranking “They didn’t know what snaking out like some organic complishments of Yusuf Bey sure paid off for E.M. Health. member of Your Black Muslim It’s been a long, painful ges- machine from dystopian Japa- they were doing,” Claggett tation, its conception occurring in turning around the lives of Bakery who owned at least two nese animation. troubled young men. Yet ....... said. “The cost per person in 1989 with the Loma Prieta The Chauncey Bailey Project franchises. A spiritually served was much higher than The pipes provide support dozens of those men had adopted son of bakery founder earthquake. An upper deck and flexibility at the same any other similar business. It section of the steel cantilever armed themselves during a is a consortium of news organi- Yusuf Bey, Nedir Bey ran for time, allowing the bridge sec- standoff with police two was clear (Bey) didn’t have eastern span, now more than zations dedicated to continuing Oakland City Council in 2002, the kind of staffing he needed tions to expand toward and years earlier. And a few years for which he received more 70 years old, broke loose in away from each other as well the reporting that Bailey, editor for that operation.” the earthquake, killing a mo- later, Yusuf Bey himself than $14,000 in public as move to and fro in a major would be accused of raping of the Oakland Post, was pur- E.M. Health opened its torist. suing when he was killed Aug. matching funds. The Public doors on July 10, 1996, in earthquake. and fathering children with Ethics Commission would later “That substation is the only On one end, the pipe is at- an office storefront on Grand thing that saved it from col- young girls who were placed 2. For information about the question thousands of dollars tached with massive bolts. On in his care. Avenue. That first year’s tax lapsing to the base of the project, contact Dori J. Maynard in expenditures claimed by his return posted income of the other, it is polished steel And the Chauncey Bailey campaign. tower,” Ney said, pointing to penetrating holes in the of the Robert C. Maynard Insti- $6,007 and a loss of the old span’s weakest link. Project has learned that in bridge’s next section. The late 1999 and early 2000, the tute for Journalism Education at ៑ ROSEMARIE BOOTHE-BEY $437,802. It spent $85,886 In 1991, experts thought metal is smooth to allow it to 510-684-3071. The public can — top administrator with E.M. on consultants, $10,600 on they could retrofit the old span FBI investigated E.M. Health slide in and out as the span Services’ loan and Nedir Bey, e-mail tips to cbproject@baya- Health Services; wife of Nedir security and only $5,708 for for $200 million, but later de- moves. Bey and mother of two of his medical supplies. It survived termined that only a replace- although it’s not clear how reanewsgroup.com. In the middle, right where the probe was resolved. children. almost exclusively on the city ment could withstand the the bridge sections meet, the loan.
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