Roanoke landlord William A. White admits he makes anti-Jewish allegations on his Web site, but says he doesn't make allegations against blacks.

That's one claim White made in a federal lawsuit he filed against three employees of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which was entered in the court system Friday. The Roanoke Times has already reported on White's plan to file the lawsuit against the agency.

The man the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's intelligence project describes as a "straight-up neo-Nazi" is asking a federal judge to make HUD stop investigating him unless the agency has a specfic tenant whose rights White has violated, according to the lawsuit.

He also asked that the investigation be limited to that instance, and that the agency should not be allowed to keep contacting his tenants. White is also seeking $60,000 in damages.

No one at the agency's office in Richmond could be reached for comment on the lawsuit. HUD officials have been in town to investigate the complaint.

White referred a call to his attorney, Jack Kennett of Roanoke. Kennett could not be reached for comment.

White, 27, has characterized the agency's investigation into allegations that he has evicted tenants on the basis of their race in violation of federal law as a "fishing expedition."

He complained that an agency employee sent letters to his tenants in the 1500 and 1600 blocks of Chapman and Patterson avenues, telling them that she wanted them to be witnesses in a federal investigation in an attempt to "stir up people and hope that someone will make a complaint even though no complaint exists in order to justify a bogus investigation," according to the lawsuit.

White maintains in his lawsuit that he evicted tenants for legitimate, nonracist reasons. He also argued that after he evicted one tenant, he found that she had taken a dead animal and smeared blood up and down the stairway, dug up a sidewalk, ripped off a railing, and taken screens off the back porch, causing about $10,000 in damage, according to the allegations.

White manages a company called White Homes and Land. He has bought homes in the West End neighborhood since last summer and has said he hopes to own 20 homes by March.

The case began last year, when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Roanoke complained to HUD about White. The organization claimed that he had evicted black tenants, filed unwarranted criminal charges against them and slandered them in person and on his Web site, overthrow.com.

Critics have claimed that he is trying to evict all black tenants as part of an alleged "ghetto beautification project."

But White maintains that the housing discrimination complaint against him is baseless, and that it is intended to curb his right to free speech, according to the lawsuit.

Meanwhile, White continues to be monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based group that investigates hate groups.

He is listed as one of "40 to Watch" on the group's Web site. Described as the "Matt Drudge of the extreme right," White operates the second most popular racist Web site on the Internet, according to the law center.

"I would describe Bill White as a straight-up neo-Nazi," said Mark Potok, director of the law center's intelligence project.

"He is being utterly disingenuous in describing himself as someone who would not discriminate," Potok said. "This is a guy who has spent the past several years doing nothing but attacking Jews and black people."

Staff writer Laurence Hammack

contributed to this report.