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Wed Oct 4, 2023, 07:57 PM Oct 2023

Brett Favre will testify under oath in Mississippi welfare scandal civil case

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will answer questions under oath about the misspending of federal welfare money in Mississippi, where public money intended to help some of the nation’s poorest people was used to fund pet projects he and other well-connected people supported.

A notice of deposition filed Monday in Hinds County Circuit Court by attorneys for Mississippi’s Department of Human Services shows Favre will give sworn testimony on Oct. 26 at a hotel in Hattiesburg. The Pro Football Hall of Famer is among more than three dozen defendants in a lawsuit the current Human Services director filed to recover some of the welfare money.

Favre has denied wrongdoing, sued the state auditor who investigated the misspending for defamation and said he paid back misspent welfare funds.

Mississippi has ranked among the poorest states in the U.S. for decades, but only a fraction of its federal welfare money has been going toward direct aid to families. Instead, the Mississippi Department of Human Services allowed well-connected people to fritter away $77 million in federal welfare funds from 2016 to 2019, according to the state auditor and state and federal prosecutors.

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-welfare-scandal-brett-favre-aeb57f694fef0e5647bd30034304ad1e

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Brett Favre will testify under oath in Mississippi welfare scandal civil case (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2023 OP
I expect the dumb jock routine underpants Oct 2023 #1
Mississippi Goddam catrose Oct 2023 #2

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