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May it Please the Catholic Knight Witch Hunter

“The debtor’s history of repeated filings [for bankruptcy] in the face of pending foreclosures demonstrates clearly and unequivocally that this case was filed in bad faith,” wrote U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel, dismissing the case of Midwest Oil — one of several related companies that have racked up five bankruptcy cases in three years — and banning it from filing again for a year. “The time has come to put a stop to the debtor’s abuse of the system.” But in court papers, one of the related outfits, Yehud-Monosson USA Inc., continued to press on. “Across the country the court systems and particularly the Bankruptcy Court in Minnesota, are composed of a bunch of ignoramus, bigoted Catholic beasts that carry the sword of the church,” the company said in a filing last month. The document, which the lawyer who signed it has denied writing and blamed on her client, called a judge a “Catholic Knight Witch Hunter” and trustees a “priest’s boy” and a “Jesuitess.” Yehud-Monosson apparently gets its name from a place in Israel; its parent, the Dr. R.C. Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology Inc., gets its name from its spiritual leader. (AC/St. Paul Pioneer Press) ...Maybe it should find a financial leader instead.