School officials at an all-girls Catholic high school in Maryland have parted ways with a substitute teacher after they discovered the teacher was connected to alt-right figure and white nationalist Richard B. Spencer, Buzzfeed News reports.

Gregory Conte, who was also a sports coach, was fired from his positions at Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, Maryland, late last week. He had been with the school since at least 2014. School president and CEO Kathleen Ryan Prebble sent home a letter informing parents that Conte has been let go immediately.

In her letter, Prebble wrote that the school had been unaware of Conte's extracurricular activities because “prior to his firing, he was successfully using an alternate identity in his work with his atrocious group,” FOX 5 reports.

Conte first became a subject of interest after a man connected to Conte named Greg Ritter was suspected to be one of the minds behind last year's deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. 

Ritter was found to be the director of operations for the National Policy Institute, an alt-right organization who, according to its website is "dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States and around the world." The organization's president and creative director is Richard Spencer.

At first it wasn't clear how Ritter and Conte were connected, but a bit of digging revealed the truth: Ritter and Conte are the same person.

"Someone sent me documents from the Atlanta Antifascists that showed Greg Ritter was Greg Conte and connected the dots to his work with Richard Spencer," Prebble said. "We immediately started to work on this and within 48 hours contacted Mr. Conte directly and he confirmed it and then we terminated him."

Conte didn't actually do much to try to hide his dual lives. He went by Gregory Ritter on Twitter, and would regularly tweet pro-alt-right messages, once tweeting that "Hitler did not commit any crimes." 

Conte told FOX that he doesn't regret his alt-right views, but said, "I obviously liked working at the school and I miss everybody, but I understand the political situation and I expected them to act as they did."

He elaborated, “The school is just trying to protect its own position. I get why they are doing that. They are doing it because they are put in an awkward position where they have employed somebody with whom they had no problem and whose views did not at all adversely affect their school’s operations.”

Prebble disagrees with Conte's assessment of events. She says that his firing had nothing to do about saving face.

"I want to make sure that our students understand that this is not about conservative or liberal or right-wing or left-wing," Prebble said. "It was about extremism and hatred and that in nowhere fit with our values."