Brett Favre could be remembered for many things throughout his 20 years as a quarterback in professional football in the NFLLike his comebacks, game-winning drives in the last quarter, the power of his arm, his daring personality on the pitch, for winning Super Bowl XXXI with the Green Bay Packersbut his legacy could be stained by situations away from the sports field.
According to a journalistic investigation of the newspaper Mississippi Today, Hall of Fame quarterback is in the eye of the storm due to a welfare money scandal in his home state, the southern US state of Mississippi.
According to reports, Favre benefited from millions of dollars of government funds. According to him Mississippi Today, former Packers quarterback received $5 million in funding grant money that went to the University of Southern Mississippi (its alma mater) to get a new gym for volleyball.
LThe publication was able to obtain text messages sent by Favre pressuring welfare officials in Mississippi to use taxpayer funds for one of their pet projects.
Besides, a pharmaceutical company Favre worked with received more than $2 million in funding from the Mississippi State Department of Human Services. If that wasn’t suspicious enough, Mississippi Today added that Favre raised $1.1 million in welfare money for your personal use.
Favre has not yet been charged with a crime for all this and according to the Mississippi Today, The former quarterback declined to speak to the publication to comment on the accusations against him.
Whether the former American football star were looking for funds to launch a new company with which he thought he could enrich himself or looking to take credit for building a new volleyball stadium in his alma mater, Favre knew he could count on former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant.with the state’s welfare chief and a director, Nancy New, a grant-funded nonprofit to help you.
According to Mississippi Today, the three-time NFL MVP winner had no qualms about nuanced treatment for others or even using his own fame and connections to secure a financial rescue.
With the investment of the pharmaceutical company Prevacus, the volleyball gym and other payments, at least 8 million in wasted auditors identified within the Mississippi’s largest welfare scandal stemmed from Favre’s applications or fees.
The non-profit organization called Mississippi Community Education Center and funded primarily by MDHS (Department of Human Services), paid Favre more than $1 million directly to be a spokesperson for the Families First for Mississippi program.
Since then, Favre returned those funds, but the auditor says he still owes $228,000 in interest on the money he improperly received.. The current director of MDHS, Bob Anderson said last October that the department would file civil charges against Favre. along with many others, but is awaiting approval from the attorney general.
Throughout his NFL career, Favre is estimated to have earned more than $140 million from salary alone, that without taking into account what he has also earned by appearing in commercials and others. Although According to the site CelebrityNetWorth.com, his fortune is around 100 million dollars.so theoretically it is not in a precarious economic situation.
Favre played two seasons for the Minnesota Vikingsone more with the New York Jets and began his NFL career in 1991 as a member of the Atlanta Falconsbefore being traded to Green Bay.
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