WISCONSIN
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Paul Srubas, Press-Gazette Media March 24, 2015
A lawyer and corporate manager for a controversial religious sect based near Shawano has been barred from practicing law in Wisconsin for a year, in part for publicly smearing federal court officers as “a bunch of ignoramus, bigoted Catholic beasts that carry the sword of the church.”
Naomi Isaacson was a lawyer and CEO of the Dr. R.C. Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology. The religious sect known as “SIST,” based in Wescott, made news in 2008 for having allegedly compiled a list of 60 Shawano area residents that were “potential victims of an implied threat,” according to Shawano police.
The institute, which also has been identified as The Disciples of the Lord Jesus, has operated since the 1970s in the Shawano area, where it owned motels, gas stations and a go-cart track. The FBI in 2009 investigated the “implied threat” list, but no charges were brought.
Isaacson had her law license suspended this week for conduct that “displayed an utter disregard and disrespect for the integrity of the courts and their judges in a brazen and outrageous fashion,” according to the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Office of Lawyer Regulation.
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