Special Investigations 
Solemn Chauncey Bailey Project tradition continues(0)
February 5, 2023
An investigative reporter was slain. What about his unfinished story? By Jeremy Barr The Washington Post February 3, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST When investigative reporter Jeff German was killed in September, his colleagues at the Las Vegas Review-Journal were determined that his stories would not die with him. They plunged into reporting on his […]
Police arrest county official in stabbing of Las Vegas investigative reporter
The Chauncey Bailey Project has issued the following statement on the news that assassinated Las Vegas reporter Jeff German had written extensively about the public official arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder. “The murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German and the arrest of the county official suspected of killing him is […]
Statement on murder of reporter Jeff German in Las Vegas
The Chauncey Bailey Project has issued the following statement on the the tragic murder of Investigative Reporter Jeff German outside his home Saturday in Las Vegas. Las Vegas Review-Journal “We send our thoughts and condolences to the family of Jeff German and all of his colleagues at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and to […]
Defendants in Black Muslim temple fraud case ordered to stand trial
HAYWARD — A Black Muslim minister from an Oakland temple, his mother, and four others were ordered to stand trial when a Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that enough evidence exists against them to go forward with a wide-ranging fraud case centered on bids for government security contracts.
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- Judge sets bail at nearly $5.5 million for members of Oakland’s Black Muslim Temple
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- Disciple of Your Black Muslim Bakery raises new group in Oakland
- Port of Oakland unanimously rejects Black Muslim security firm’s bid to guard shoreline parks
- Port of Oakland now set to reject security firm linked to the defunct Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Black Muslim security firm makes false claims in bid to secure Port of Oakland contract
- Alameda County: Court records show security firm used fake documents to obtain lucrative deal
- Book soon to be released on Bailey murder
- Chauncey Bailey murder: ‘Justice has finally been done’
- Reporter gets new death threat while investigating fraud allegations against Your Black Muslim Bakery associate
- Allegations of real estate fraud dog former associate of Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Popoff, Bey IV’s ‘No. 1 soldier,’ expressed his loyalty
- Sources: Witnesses in Bey IV case were marked for death
- Three trials of Your Black Muslim Bakery followers set for early 2010
- Longmire: I was the best man to investigate Chauncey Bailey slaying
- Lawyer: DA not interested in wider probe in journalist Bailey’s slaying
- Former bakery associate awarded BART contract
- Suspended Oakland investigator had more conversations with Bey IV than previously thought
- Bey IV tried to strong-arm follower, recordings reveal
- Chauncey Bailey’s family still in pain two years after slaying
- The Oakland Post pushes forward despite loss of its prolific editor
- The Chauncey Bailey slaying: Key players
- From Texas to Oakland, the elder Bey’s path to the bakery
- Yusuf Bey built business empire with questionable tactics
- Welfare money-maker for senior Bey
- Bey’s security firms important financial arm of his businesses
- Yusuf Bey IV grew up in prominent yet troubled bakery
- Bailey suspects, associates left behind $6 million trail of bad loans
- Security business at Marriott earns praise
- Two years later: The Chauncey Bailey slaying
- Former bakery leader accused of saying ‘white people are devils’ after killing
- Law catching up with Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Former bakery associates run afoul of the law
- Putting Longmire on Bailey case was a mistake, Jordan admits
- Michael J. Wills Jr.
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- Yusuf Bey IV discusses religious beliefs in jail calls
- Getaway driver in Bailey slaying has long criminal history
- Path to indictment
- Broussard’s statement may help police clear two more killings
- Suspect says Chauncey Bailey marked for death
- Additional murder charges imminent in journalist Chauncey Bailey’s killing
- Lead detective on Chauncey Bailey killing may be fired
- Record shows Bey IV not truthful about Bailey killing
- Jailhouse calls between Bey IV, detective revealed
- Investigators: Bakery leader bragged about ordering killing of Oakland journalist
- Documents say Oakland police beat suspect who died
- FBI investigating Oakland Police Department
- Dissent on the rise within Oakland Police Department
- Rank-and-file begin to question Bailey probe
- Understaffed Oakland department behind other cities in solving homicides
- Oakland homicide clearance numbers vary
- OPD homicide detectives focus on interrogation, sometimes at expense of other investigation
- Law enforcement reports and statistics are available on the Internet
- Charts: Homicides in California’s largest cities; Oakland homicide detectives’ case loads, wages, overtime
- Dellums calls for expanded probe of police handling Bailey case
- Delayed raid likely cost Chauncey Bailey his life
- Bakery leader embracing guns in bakery’s criminal acts long before editor’s killing
- Bailey Project stands behind its report on police investigation
- Dellums requests state to investigate police handling of Bailey killing
- Dellums to ask state attorney general to investigate handling of Bailey killing
- Dellums to call for outside investigation into journalist’s killing
- Investigator interfered in police probes of former bakery CEO
- Experts Criticize Investigation
- Conspiracy Missed?
- Evidence Ignored
- The Night Before the Murder
- Bey IV run-ins with the law
- Evidence Ignored: A Timeline
- Editor’s Note
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- Bailey killing figure had troubled youth
- Highlights gathered from documents, recordings
- Key players
- Secret video raises questions about bakery leader’s role in Bailey killing
- Van owner: I gave the keys to Bey IV
- KGO: Jailhouse video sheds light on Bailey murder
- KTVU: Taped Jailhouse Conversation Raises Questions
- Documents and recordings
- Additional cases
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- Police reopen 1968 Santa Barbara mosque slaying investigation
- Profiles of abuse
- A chronology of abuse
- Women, Part II: Testimony reveals a life of abuse, toil for women of Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Fear kept Yusuf Bey abuse victims from seeking any help
- Reports to authorities of abuse
- Women, Part I: One police officer cracked abuse case against Yusuf Bey
- Nedir Bey evades trouble over election finances
- E.M. Health, Part III: Political, racial pressure pays off for bakery
- E.M. Health, Part II: E.M. Health attempts to borrow away debt
- E.M. Health, Part 1: How Oakland’s $1 million loan vanished into bakery’s sham firm
- Who’s who of key players in E.M. Health
- Timeline of E.M. Health’s loan
- Were Oakland police afraid of Black Muslim bakery?
- Web resources
- Oakland police stop short of taping full interviews
- Several Muslim bakery members linked to crimes
- A journalist’s last day
- Police take another look at 1982 slaying linked to bakery
- Suspected driver in journalist’s slaying still free
- Muslim bakery family linked to real estate broker accused of fraud
- Bey matriarch accused of duping creditors
- Bey family property transactions
- Bey mother involved in sale of Your Black Muslim Bakery
- Bey IV’s rap sheet spans range of criminal charges
- Bey IV claims rivals set him up
- Did cops drag their feet on bakery probe?
- Big questions linger in Bailey’s slaying
- Confession in Bailey’s killing prompts questions
- Slain editor’s bakery source surfaces
Slideshow: Michael J. Wills Jr.
A Day Late in Oakland
Evidence Ignored: A Timeline
Chauncey Bailey: life and work
Bailey killing figure had troubled youth
Secret video raises questions about bakery leader’s role in Bailey killing
Unsolved 1986 slaying of baker linked to founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery
Women, Part II: Testimony reveals a life of abuse, toil for women of Your Black Muslim Bakery
Women, Part I: One police officer cracked abuse case against Yusuf Bey
Nedir Bey evades trouble over election finances
Were Oakland police afraid of Black Muslim bakery?
Muslim bakery family linked to real estate broker accused of fraud
