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	Lawyer Flings Even More Religious Slurs at Judge Handling Company's Bankruptcy Case By David Hanners Pioneer Press December 14, 2011 http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_19542037 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. Some former members maintain the group is a cult, a claim Isaacson and others deny. Neither Cohen nor anyone with SIST has responded to requests for interviews. Isaacson, described by one of her previous lawyers as an Orthodox Jew, has not elaborated on what fuels her animus toward the Catholic Church. She has written, however, that SIST has faced discrimination "because its founder...would not consent to do the dirty job for the church to bring unrest politically and sociologically in India." In her legal filings, she has accused public officials, the courts, the media - including the Pioneer Press - of conspiring to cover up "the dirty works of their church." Shawano is in the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. Deacon Ray DuBois, a spokesman for the diocese, said church officials had never had any confrontations with Cohen but added: "I do know he's known in the community and he's not a particularly good neighbor. As far as his feelings about the Catholic Church, I'm not sure where he's coming from." Yehud-Monosson USA was formed from other former SIST subsidiaries that had filed a string of bankruptcies that various judges had thrown out. Its original bankruptcy filing listed assets of $6.9 million and liabilities of $6.2 million. Isaacson claimed in an affidavit that the company was forced into bankruptcy by "a mass conspiratorial campaign of aggressive discrimination, predatorial activities of lenders, and invasion of the privacy of the business affairs of this Debtor." Yehud-Monosson USA filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which gives the debtor control of its assets while reorganizing its finances. Creditors are also prohibited from suing for their money. But the U.S. Department of Justice's Trustee Program asked O'Brien to convert the case to a Chapter 7 case, placing Yehud-Monosson USA under the direction of a trustee, who then oversees a resolution of the finances or liquidation of assets. The U.S. Trustee Program accused Yehud-Monosson of acting in bad faith and abusing bankruptcy law by filing to avoid foreclosures. In June, O'Brien agreed and converted the case to Chapter 7. In October, without explanation, O'Brien stepped down from the case and it was assigned to Dreher. Although Isaacson spent 3-1/2 years working as a law clerk for a Hennepin County district judge, her 16-page filing Tuesday lacked the characteristics of a legal document. It is unsigned and unsworn, and its cover page doesn't list the name of the case or case number. The document says it is "From the Desk of C.E.O. Naomi Isaacson, J.D.," and the first 2-1/2 pages are typed in all capital letters. She accused Dreher of holding a "secret illegal hearing" and said the court "is an arm of the church to force the minority to be converted or face the consequences just like during the Dark and Middle Ages." She called one trustee "Grand Inquisitor" and referred to the attorney representing the U.S. Trustee Program as a "Papal Drummer." Isaacson said O'Brien converted the case to Chapter 7 "on papal orders" and called him "the dastardly Jesuit." She called Dreher "a secret Catholic Knight Witch Hunter," among other names. (Dreher wrote in a footnote to her show-cause order last week that she has never been Catholic. "I am not of any particular faith," the judge noted.) In her filing, Isaacson accused the Catholic Church of bringing illegal immigrants into the U.S. "so their population can outrun that of the Protestants and they can turn the country into another Spain." "The Catholic Church has millions of Jesuits working undercover around the country to fulfill the church's agenda," Isaacson's filing says. "They give orders, pull the strings, and their puppets like Nancy Dreher jump like zombies." Contact: dhanners@pioneerpress.com
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