Brett Favre Questioned Legality of Welfare Funds He Received, Texts Show
Retired NFL star Brett Favre questioned the legality of $1.1 million in payments he received from a state-affiliated nonprofit, texts show.
Retired NFL star Brett Favre questioned the legality of $1.1 million in payments he received from a state-affiliated nonprofit, texts show.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter could become the latest defendant in former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s ongoing lawsuit against online news publication Mississippi Today. The former governor’s legal team is seeking to add reporter Anna Wolfe, whose “Backchannel” series earned the publication a coveted local-reporting Pulitzer Prize last May, as a defendant over a story she reported late last year.
Mississippi’s Republican attorney general is suing the Republican state auditor to block his efforts to recover welfare money from Brett Favre.
Mississippi’s state auditor is renewing his call for Brett Favre to repay the state for welfare money that the auditor says was improperly spent.
Brett Favre denied during a sworn deposition that he sought funding to build a volleyball stadium at USM for his daughter’s benefit.
Attorneys for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will depose former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant about the state’s welfare scandal.
Brett Favre must turn over his text messages to the State of Mississippi for the investigation into mispent Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds.
“The theft of funds that should have helped the poorest people in the poorest state remains a vital story to tell and uncover,” Ashton Pittman writes.
Attorneys for the State of Mississippi interrogated retired NFL star Brett Favre for more than nine hours in a secret deposition about the State’s $77-million welfare scandal in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023.
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