In the Tuesday newspaper, at the end of the story about the new Kwik Trip station, it said this:

“The former owner of 2611 Bridge Ave. was Midwest Oil of Minnesota, which also goes by the name Yehud-Monosson USA Inc., according to files in U.S. Bankruptcy Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit.

“Yehud-Monosson is a subsidiary of the Shawano, Wis., religious group called the Dr. R.C. Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology Inc., or SIST.”

We had a request from a reader to investigate further. We would like to respond by saying that information about the prior owner indeed has been investigated further. Yehud-Monosson was in the Tribune on Dec. 12.

The story said a federal bankruptcy judge in Minnesota was considering fining St. Paul lawyer Rebekah Nett and Naomi Isaacson, a Minneapolis woman who is president of Yehud-Monosson USA Inc. over a court filing with anti-Catholic statements.

A November filing from them said the courts were “composed of a bunch of ignoramus, bigoted Catholic beasts that carry the sword of the church” and called the judge a “Catholic Knight Witch Hunter.”

The judge in January fined them $5,000 each. They are appealing the fines. The group has a reputation for not paying its bills, fines, judgments and other indebtedness.

In addition, there is plenty of news on the World Wide Web about SIST and Yehud-Monosson.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that former members of SIST call it a religious cult. The Pioneer Press said the “nonprofit educational group grew from the Disciples of the Lord Jesus, which was founded in Shawano, Wis., in the 1970s by an Indian immigrant who now goes by the name Avraham Cohen.”

By the way, a similar Mobile station sits vacant at Grand and Smith avenues in St. Paul.