Feds Raid David Duke's Home

M A N D E V I L L E, La., Nov. 16 -- Federal agents searched the home of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and seized boxes of documents today.

FBI spokeswoman Sheila Thorne refused to give any details aboutthe investigation.

She said agents from the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and thePostal Service searched Duke’s suburban New Orleans home.

Duke was apparently not home.

The former KKK leader and Senate candidate appeared before afederal grand jury in New Orleans in 1999 as news broke that Gov.Mike Foster had paid him more than $150,000 for a computerized listof his supporters. There were two payments made, one during and oneafter the 1995 governor’s race, which Foster won.

Duke had considered entering that race but ultimately stayed outof it.

It was not known if today’s raid on Duke’s home had anythingto do with that matter.