On the same vein as my previous posts, “Your Black Muslim Bakery” has been the subject of investigation. Via Michelle Malkin, the establishment is bankrupt and apparently owing quite a bit of money.

According to court documents and public records, Your Black Muslim Bakery owes about $200,000 to the IRS; $100,000 to a creditor, Richard Stovall; and $11,000 to another creditor, Patricia Hill. In 2005, the bakery borrowed $625,000 from an Oakland mortgage company, Davis Mortgage Investment Fund.
The bakery did not file W-2 forms to the IRS in 2005 or 2006, and other filings showed discrepancies in wages paid to employees, Patricia Montero, an IRS attorney, told the judge Thursday.

Barbara Lee rescinds support:

“At the request of representatives of Your Black Muslim Bakery, my office provided a letter to a federal agency related to the bankruptcy,” Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, said in a statement issued Thursday. “Like many people, I historically supported the bakery because it has been an important institution in the community, but it is clear that is no longer the case. Knowing what we 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,” Lee said.

What Lee and others’ “support” constituted (from LGF):

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland found themselves in the unwelcome spotlight this week over the letters of support they wrote on behalf of the notorious Your Black Muslim Bakery, but they aren’t the only politicos who have supported the group over the years.

At the height of its power back in 1996, the splinter Muslim group - whose members were implicated in last week’s slaying of newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey - got the city to approve an advance on a $1.2 million federal redevelopment loan to launch training program for health care jobs. Within three months, the group had burned through $275,000 without turning out a single graduate.

They did, however, spend $650 a month to lease a Cadillac.

When asked to explain what was going on, the Black Muslim Bakery cadre - in one of their typical tactics - marched in unison from the bakery to City Hall, then entered the council chambers like a precision drill team, lining up along the room’s back walls.

“The message was very clear - we are watching you,” said City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente, who cast one of the votes against the group’s request.

Sorry for all the blockquoting, but it’s better if I don’t introduce typos in trying to transfer all this information. My elementary analysis is that this is indicative of corruption in Oakland. If police had to wait on a year-long investigation when this sort of information was readily available, they don’t have enough resources (this is a given). The result of this being a murder after so much other legal trouble surrounding the bakery shows that there isn’t enough enforcement, or the consequences aren’t severe enough. And that the officials don’t think to research the diverse groups they support (or just don’t care) shows that their priorities are off. The waste of so much money (from the taxpayers) is lamentable seeing as it should go towards law enforcement so that ordinary people who pay it can be safe from this sort of preventable violence.

(caveat: most of this is blindingly obvious. Apologies.)