Brett Favre's $5M Welfare Scandal

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Tarun Sharma (@tksharmalaw) Jason Morrin (@Jason_Morrin) and Matt Tympanick (@TympanickLaw) dive into the Brett Favre fraud scandal that has come to light. (3:22) Brett Favre has been implicated in a civil lawsuit where former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant helped Favre obtain funds to build a volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi, where his daughter played. It is reported that this scheme misappropriated at least $5 million of welfare funds were channeled onto building the volleyball facility. A State audit found that the Department of Human Services misspent millions of dollars in federal welfare grant funds where $94 million of the $98 million was in question. A separate audit discovered that $77 million was improperly used by the Mississippi welfare program. Text messages have surfaced between Favre, non-profit director Nancy New and former Governor Bryant were working together to deceive and misappropriate the funds. The next steps would be for federal charges to be filed against Bryant and Favre.

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