Hall-of-Fame quarterback Brett Favre has been accused of failing to send text messages to the Mississippi Department of Human Services as required as part of the welfare fund investigation.
The case involves wasting millions in federal wealth on projects supported by some of the state’s wealthiest citizens with the best connections, including Favre.
The text messages from the former NFL star would indicate that he is conspiring against the plan with other parties.
The MDHS filing on Monday alleged that Favre “has failed to respond to these discoveries” regarding his text messages in the alleged scheme that allegedly funneled about $8 million in federal welfare funds to projects favored by Favre. gave.
Despite being prima facie identified as the sender or recipient of these text messages, Favre objected, claiming he was unable to verify the authenticity of many of these text messages. …His production contained no text messages even though MDHS specifically requested text messages with other defendants,” MDHS attorneys wrote the submission.
Brett Favre is accused of failing to provide text messages for a welfare fund investigation
Resurfaced text messages from 2017 revealed his efforts to transfer $5 million in benefits to a new volleyball arena for the University of Southern Mississippi, his alma mater, where his daughter was playing the sport at the time. In one post, Favre wonders, “Can the media even find out where (the money) is coming from and how much?”
But in his statement to Fox News, Favre denied knowing the source of the funding.
“Nobody ever told me, and I didn’t know, that funds earmarked for welfare recipients went to the university or to me,” Favre said. “I was trying to help my alma mater USM, a public state university in Mississippi, raise money for a wellness center. My goal was and will always be to improve the sports facilities at my university.’
Favre is also accused of funneling $1.7 million in government funding to develop an anti-concussion drug company that counted the retired quarterback among its investors.
The Green Bay Packers legend has not been charged with any crime in the case, and he previously repaid $1.1 million he received for no-show speaking appearances. However, since the repayment of that amount, Favre and more than three dozen other companies and people have been sued by the MDHS.
In April, his request to dismiss the Mississippi Department of Human Services lawsuit against him was denied by a judge.
He first tried to dismiss the 2022 lawsuit in November before the state reviews its demands against him the following month.
Favre’s attorneys then filed in February to dismiss the amended lawsuit, arguing that the MDHS was attempting to deviate from its own failed oversight by suing the Pro Football Hall of Famer.
In 2017 lyrics, Favre seemed concerned that the public would learn about the plan
It is clear that MDHS has sued Favre, a national celebrity from Mississippi, in an attempt to deflect responsibility for his own egregious misconduct by allowing tens of millions of dollars of his public funds to be misused – funds for which MDHS himself admits that it was “exclusively responsible,” read the file of Favre’s attorneys, including former Donald Trump attorney Eric D. Herschmann.
In April, District Court Judge E. Faye Peterson ruled that Favre’s motion for dismissal was denied because his argument rested on his version of the facts, which “cannot be considered by the Court” due to procedural rules.
Peterson also described Favre’s lawyers’ arguments as “inconclusive and inapplicable.”
Favre used welfare funds to pay for a volleyball school at Southern Miss, his alma mater
In October, Favre claimed he was “unfairly smeared in the media” for his connection to the $77 million federal welfare scam in his home state of Mississippi.
“I did nothing wrong, and it’s time to set things right,” Favre told Fox News in a statement, breaking months of silence on the matter.
The Southern Miss product has not been charged in the case, which has already resulted in several guilty pleas, but did receive $1.1 million in welfare money for no-show speaking appearances. He has since repaid that amount, but has so far refused to pay the $228,000 interest charged to him by the state.
As a result, Favre is among 38 individuals or organizations being sued by the state to recover $24 million of the $77 million in federal welfare money, according to Mississippi Today.