The messages reportedly reveal that Bryant, Favre and other officials worked to direct “at least $5 million” of money intended for the state’s poorest residents toward the center instead.
Favre also received $1.1 million of welfare funds in 2017 and 2018 for “motivational speeches” he never made and was asked by the state auditor to give the money back with interest, NBC News reported earlier this month.
Former NFL star quarterback Brett Favre denies any wrongdoing or being a part of the largest case of public fraud in Mississippi history. Favre said recently on Fox News Digital:
"I have been unjustly smeared in the media. I have done nothing wrong and it is past time to set the record straight. No one ever told me, and I did not know, that funds designated for welfare recipients were going to the university or me. I tried to help my alma mater ... raise funds for a wellness center."
Favre, who supported Trump in 2020, seems to be taking a page out of the Republican playbook:
I didn't do it.
And if I did it, I didn't know I shouldn't have done it.
And besides is it really a crime to just help people.
To be clear, what Former Republican Governor Phil Bryant, Brett Favre and several others schemed by stealing state welfare funds from Mississippi to build a stadium at a college that Favre’s daughter plays at is a crime. They need to all go jail for this.
Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will answer questions under oath about the misspending of federal welfare money in Mississippi, where public money intended to help some of the nation’s poorest people was used to fund pet projects he and other well-connected people supported.
A notice of deposition filed Monday in Hinds County Circuit Court by attorneys for Mississippi’s Department of Human Services shows Favre will give sworn testimony on Oct. 26 at a hotel in Hattiesburg. The Pro Football Hall of Famer is among more than three dozen defendants in a lawsuit the current Human Services director filed to recover some of the welfare money.
Favre has denied wrongdoing, sued the state auditor who investigated the misspending for defamation and said he paid back misspent welfare funds.
After the State of Mississippi spent millions of dollars in welfare money on Brett Favre's pet project, a university volleyball arena, the retired NFL quarterback and concussed hillbilly tried two years later to get additional cash from the state's welfare agency for another sports facility, new court documents show. Favre, who would have been bagging groceries at the Gulp and Blow without the ability to throw a football hard, is at the center of a case to recover more than $20 million in misspent welfare money intended to help needy people in one of the country's poorest states. While the Republican dumbass governor who allowed Favre to bilk the state out of money is the real villain, Favre looks like a huge piece of shit too. So far, he has blamed his involvement on all the concussions he sustained as a player. “Yeah, I don’t even know where I am half the time, so I doubt I asked for money for a football field,” said the lying bumpkin.