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Article: Yusuf Bey built business empire with questionable tactics
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 2, 2009
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Yusuf Bey took great pride in being a successful black
businessman.
He built Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland into a well-known
Bay Area business that at its height in the mid-1990s had eight
bakery outlets and several wholesale clients. Over time he and
members of his bakery family operated at least eight other
businesses, including dry cleaning, laundry, grocery, elementary
school and security companies and a nonprofit.
At various times they had an estimated 25 to 100 workers and
annual revenues of about $2 million, based on company statements,
business credit reports and competitors. Chauffeurs drove Yusuf Bey
around in a Mercedes.
"The bakery is Bey's mosque, and business is his ...