"We may as well flush her papal bull order down the toilet" - more released in MN bigot lawyer case

A Minneapolis lawyer has responded to a judge's threat of a hefty fine over an insult-laden legal memorandum by filing a reply loaded with even more religious slurs than the one prompting the judge's warning.

In a filing Tuesday in the bankruptcy case of the company she heads, Naomi Isaacson refers to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Nancy Dreher as "Popess Dreher" and asks, "Who does she think she is?"

She labeled U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis O'Brien a 'dastardly Jesuit' and called the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee a "mindless numbnut (who) would follow church orders with a vengeance."

Isaacson, herself a lawyer and a former law clerk to a Hennepin County district judge, claimed the judges and trustee conspired to liquidate her company's assets "for pennies" so the proceeds could go "to members of the Catholic Church."

And she wrote that she had little regard for a contempt-of-court order Dreher issued giving Isaacson a Friday deadline to turn certain records over to the bankruptcy trustee.

"We may as well flush her papal bull order down the toilet," the document says.

Neither Dreher nor O'Brien has commented about the woman's filings; the Code of Conduct for United States Judges prohibits federal judges from making public comments about pending cases.

But last week, Dreher ordered Isaacson and her attorney, Rebekah Nett, to show cause at a Jan. 4 hearing why they shouldn't be fined up to $10,000 each - and face other sanctions - for a series of anti-Catholic slurs and other assertions they included in a legal memorandum in November.

Dreher wrote that the memorandum was filled with "unsupported and outrageous allegations of bigotry, deceit, conspiracy, and scandalous statements."

Isaacson, 37, of Minneapolis, did not respond to requests for an interview.

She is president of Yehud-Monosson USA Inc., which owned a number of gas stations and convenience stores, including a Mobil station on the corner of Grand and Smith avenues in St. Paul.

Yehud-Monosson USA is a subsidiary of the Dr. R.C. Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology, often referred to as SIST. Isaacson is also the institute's chief executive officer.

SIST is based in Shawano, Wis., a town of 8,900 located 270 miles east of St. Paul. The group's spiritual leader is an Indian immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen who now goes by the name Avraham Cohen.

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