The bookstore owner who called 911 on Saturday when he saw a customer harassing former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has a second Trump connection.

His wife drew a five-year federal prison term in 1995 for embezzling an estimated $2.2 million from the Episcopal Church. The judge who sent her away was Maryanne Trump Barry, the president's sister.

Nicholas Trout Cooke III, who operates Black Swan Books in Richmond, Virginia, was an Episcopal priest at the time, leading a parish in tony McLean, Virginia a few miles from where his wife Ellen grew up.

Ellen's enormous theft put her behind bars, made her husband an ex-clergyman, and left them both practically penniless. They rebounded, though, sell antiquarian books at two quiet Virginia locations where the public can browse rare finds for about 15 hours per week.

Nick Cooke became a lightning rod for a second time when he called the cops on Saturday.

Nicholas Cooke made news Saturday in his bookshop for defending Steve Bannon by calling 911 when he saw a woman cursing at him inside the store

Black Swan Books sells antiquarian volumes and is only open to the public a few days per week; Bannon was browsing there on Saturday

Bannon is seen as the furthest-right Trump adviser, and democrats resent the former Breitbart News executive chairman for his role as President Trump's campaign CEO

He explained the incident in a brief statement, saying that 'a person' entered his shop 'and repeatedly shouted obscenities at a customer, Steve Bannon.'

'While I personally disagree strongly with Mr. Bannon's political views, I will not allow someone to shout obscenities at any customer in our bookstore,' he said.

'I certainly regret that some are upset or offended. I did my best to deal with an unexpected and difficult situation.'

Cooke told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that '[b]ookshops are all about ideas and tolerating different opinions and not about verbally assaulting somebody, which is what was happening.'

Bannon grew up in Richmond.

The Cookes' past drew notice on Twitter after Philippe Reines, a long-time senior aide to Hillary Clinton, posted Black swan Books' address, phone number and email contact.

While conservatives responded by posting Reines' personal contact information, Bannon antagonists castigated the bookseller for protecting him.

Drip by drip, news stories from the mid-1990s re-emerged, including the role of Judge Barry.

President Donald Trump is pictured in this 2008 photo with his sister Maryanne Trump Barry, a federal judge who sentenced Nick Cooke's wife Ellen to prison in 1996 for embezzlement

The Cookes were practically penniless when Ellen Cooke went to prison in 1996 but they have rebounded and now own a pair of bookstores in Virginia

'Is nothing sacred anymore?' she had asked during a July 1996 sentencing hearing after Mrs. Cooke pleaded guilty to stealing $1.5 million, most of what she had been accused of taking.

'A church is different from a bank. It’s different from a teller taking ten thousand bucks from the till,' the judge said.

Reporters back then made a near-academic study of the Cooke saga, chronicling her near-dictatorial grip on the church's money and her systematic cash-skimming, which came as layoffs displaced nearly 100 employees.

They learned of the historic $465,000 home the Cookes bought in New Jersey to add to a Virginia farm, Mrs. Cooke's fabrication of a degree from Georgetown University and her later claims of memory blocks that erased her crimes from her own mind.

In her only public statement on the case, she said a psychiatrist had pronounced her 'one of a small percentage of the population who by reasons of personality are simply unable to stop in the face of enormous pressures and stress.'

Longtime Hillary Clinton confidant Philippe Reines posted Cooke's address and contact information online in protest after the bookseller rushed to Bannon's aid; Reines quickly found himself targeted the same way

She also blamed her theft, in part, on sexism rooted in 'the years I worked as a lay woman on a senior level at the church headquarters.'

According to a 2013 scholarly paper published in the Journal of Academic and Business Ethics, most of the people who worked with Cooke were themselves women.

Plato Cacheris, Cooke's lawyer, asked Barry for lenience because his client had been diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive with mood swings.

She had 'cracked' under the pressure of being a college dropout in charge of an entire religious denomination's finances, he said, along with what The Washington Post at the time described as 'a miscarriage, failed in vitro fertilization, her mother's brain surgery [and] her father's diagnosis of cancer.'

'She is a control freak,' Cacheris told Barry, 'She is obsessive, compulsive–'

'Aren't we all?' the future president's sister snapped back at him from the federal bench.

Nick Cooke did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

Reines, once famous for playing the part of Donald Trump in Hillary Clinton's debate-preparation sessions, defended his decision to publish Cooke's contact information to his 45,000 Twitter followers.

'I’m providing a service to the public by providing the contact information the bookstore posted on their website – presumably with the hope of being contacted,' he wrote. 'I presented facts [without] encouraging any behavior.'

'I’d point out through [sic] it’s possible this woman stopped a book burning,' Reines added in a final slap at Bannon.