THE
ENABLERS

GOVERNMENT

OAKLAND
COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Recommended
$1.1 million
loan to Nedir Bey.

OAKLAND
CITY COUNCIL
Unanimously approved loan in 1996. (Councilwoman Sheila Jordan pictured.)

PORT
OF OAKLAND STAFF
Picked Universal Distributors to provide security at Oakland airport,
though firm lacks valid license.

CIVIC

LEADERS

KEITH
CARSON
Name appears as character reference during Nedir Bey’s 1995
sentencing for false imprisonment.

DON PERATA
Wrote August 2002 letter commending Yusuf Bey’s “leadership”
in community.

LAW

ENFORCEMENT

OAKLAND
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Joe Samuels’ department allegedly adopted casual attitude to violence
by Black Muslims.

CHILD
PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Allegedly failed to act on charges that Yusuf Bey raped a girl under
his foster care.

BUSINESSES

MARRIOTT
HOTEL
Contracts with Universal Distributors for security, though firm lacks
a security license.

OAKLAND
ICE CENTER
Contracted with Universal Distributors for security, though firm lacks
a security license.

MEDIA

OAKLAND
TRIBUNE
Has soft-pedaled coverage of alleged crimes by Nedir and Yusuf Bey.

SOUL
BEAT Chuck Johnson’s station broadcasts
Bey’s racist sermons and banned on-air discussion of Bey’s
arrest.

EAST BAY
EXPRESS Wrote a 1994 profile of Yusuf Bey
that glossed over his homophobia and anti- Semitism.

The Enablers

Numerous players have assisted the Beys.