Sports Illustrated reports:
Brett Favre has portrayed himself as an unknowing and tangential participant in the welfare-embezzlement scheme. But it appears nobody benefited more. Interviews and an analysis of legal filings and records, which include dozens of text conversations — some of which have not previously been public — paint Favre as a ringleader from start to finish.
Favre had promised his alma mater, Southern Miss, that he would build a volleyball facility for his daughter Breleigh’s team there. But he was obsessed with not paying for it himself.
So he got Mississippi’s welfare agency to build indoor and beach volleyball facilities for him—using money intended for the poorest people in the nation’s poorest state—and then he kept pushing to get more for a business venture, with the governor often helping him, according to texts from those involved.
Read the full article. There’s much more. No paywall. Thus far Favre has not faced any criminal charges. As you might predict, Favre is an election-denying Trump cultist.
A governor texting about “our cause.” A key administrator in Brett Favre’s pocket. Millions in welfare money misspent.
Now: the looming possibility Favre will be indicted.@Rosenberg_Mike with an inside look at what Favre did—and how he did it https://t.co/vvL79GFqYK
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) May 18, 2023
I’m with Tucker. Time to boycott Fox until they come to their senses and let the man speak. pic.twitter.com/dvrNlLdvgW
— Brett Favre (@BrettFavre) May 8, 2023