NEW ORLEANS (AP) — While awaiting release from a halfway house, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has been working for an organization he founded that defends "white civil rights."

Duke, a former state lawmaker who ran for governor and the Senate, was required to get a job while at the Baton Rouge halfway house, where he is completing his federal sentence for fraud.

Tracy Billingsley, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in Washington, said Monday she had no comment on Duke's job until she could check into it.

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But Duke spokesman Roy Armstrong said federal prison officials did not object to Duke working for his own organization, the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO.

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