State Auditor Demands Brett Favre Return $828,000 In ‘Illegally Spent Welfare Funds’ – By Melanie Cox (Daily Caller) / Oct 13 2021
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre owes $828,000 in illegally obtained welfare funds back to the state of Mississippi, Mississippi Auditor Shad White said in a statement Wednesday.
Favre received $1.1 million in funds from two non-profits whose founder received state and federal charges for Mississippi’s largest embezzlement scheme, according to Mississippi Free Press. Even though Favre accepted the money to speak at Families First for Mississippi, one of the non-profits involved in the scheme, he did not realize the funds were illegal when he took them, according to Mississippi Free Press. He also never attended the speaking engagements, Mississippi Free Press reported.
White’s office served demands for more than $77 million of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds, according to the statement. Former Department of Human Services Director John Davis and vendors paid out funds to various non-profits yet failed to actually fulfill their contract work, and received the notices to return the money, the statement said
NEW: The Mississippi State Auditor is demanding that Brett Favre return $828,000 he received in "illegally spent welfare funds" that should have gone to needy families.
But Favre is not among the six facing criminal charges for the scheme.https://t.co/M2UIZCbOli
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 13, 2021
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