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A nug you may have missed from the @MS_DHS audit released today: Mississippi paid $1.1 million in welfare money to quarterback Brett Favre to appear at events. And then he didn’t go.
Read our story on the audit here @MSTODAYnews: mississippitoday.org/2020/05/04/inc…
link for those who asked: documentcloud.org/documents/6882…
This has been revelatory for many. I did report on Brett Favre’s connections to Human Services/John Davis and two of the projects eventually funded with #TANF money two months ago, by the way. mississippitoday.org/2020/03/05/the…
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Last week, I published a story about two Brett Favre pet projects: a concussion research firm, which allegedly received stolen welfare money from a nonprofit, and the new volleyball court at his alma mater, paid for by the same nonprofit. Then I found this email calendar invite:
Former Gov. Phil Bryant says he didn’t attend this meeting and while he had discussions with Favre about recruiting the concussion drug company to Mississippi, he said he never suggested Human Services be involved.
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News of the alleged public embezzlement scheme within Mississippi’s TANF program, or welfare, explains so much about the secrecy reporters have faced in trying to report on the agency. Here’s what happened when I tried to request TANF records in 2017: scribd.com/document/38582…
The ethics commission eventually sided with the newspaper: scribd.com/document/39818…
The program attracted national attention earlier that year after @MS_DHS reported approving just 1.4 percent of applicants for welfare (the agency promptly stopped publishing the stat in its annual reports after that). thinkprogress.org/mississippi-re…
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