Ex-Mississippi welfare director arrested, accused of using funds to pay for ex-WWE wrestler’s rehab – By David Aaro (FOX News) / Feb 6 2020
The former head of the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) has been arrested in an alleged multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme, which officials said Wednesday helped pay for the rehab of retired WWE wrestler Brett DiBiase.
John Davis, the ex-DHS head who retired last year, was one of six charged in what the state auditor Shad White described as the “largest public embezzlement case in state history.”
DiBiase is the son of Ted DiBiase, a WWE Hall of Famer.
FILE – In this Sept. 7, 2016 file photo John Davis, then executive director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
An eight-month investigation by White’s office concluded that the accused conspired to illegally obtain millions in public funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), using “numerous business entities and schemes to defraud the taxpayers,” the office said.
Davis and former DHS employee Latimer Smith allegedly paid DiBiase money to teach classes about drug use, but the former wrestler was at a California rehab center and never “performed those services,” the office said.
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