Brett Favre

Jeff Pearlman, who wrote a bestselling biography of Brett Favre in 2016, tweeted that people shouldn't read his book and that Favre is "a bad guy."

Favre still owes $228,000 in interest and could be taken to court by the state of Mississippi if he does not pay in full. I prefer crumbs like Brett Favre shuffle off into the abyss, shamed by greed and selfishness." I don't know how someone like that looks in the mirror. He doesn't deserve the icon treatment. Favre expressed relief that then-governor Phil Bryant was on board for the deal. Favre has already been questioned by the FBI and has repaid $1.1 million that was reportedly given to him for motivational speeches he did not give.

Text messages from 2017 appear to show Brett Favre was helped in receiving funding from former Mississippi governor Phil Bryant as part of a bigger welfare ...

New is helping the prosecution as part of her plea deal and says she worked to help Favre at the instruction of Bryant. He said that he didn’t know the money he received came from welfare funds. Favre sought Bryant’s help in raising money, and Bryant reportedly turned to nonprofit founder Nancy New for assistance.

Brett Favre has been the subject of a Mississippi welfare scandal and now more so than ever. Here's what has happened with the developing story.

New has already been charged criminally on 13 felony counts for the welfare scandal, though Favre and Bryant have not. For years, Favre has denied any contact with Bryant or any knowledge about where the money was coming from. According to these reports, the money that was funneled from the Mississippi welfare fund was used to help build a new volleyball stadium at Southern Miss, where Favre went to school and played football.

Through the Mississippi welfare fund scandal investigations, long time Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has denied knowledge of the fact that the ...

[@ayewolfe]five years later: [https://t.co/rWXHRXISsu] [pic.twitter.com/wo3QuIYXaY] [September 13, 2022] [Favre has already been questioned by the FBI and has repaid $1.1 million](https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-2-power-rankings-chiefs-rise-to-no-2-while-super-bowl-teams-fall-but-dont-overreact-to-wild-start/) that was reportedly given to him for motivational speeches he did not give. According to Mississippi Today, Bryant sent that text just a few days after former welfare agency director John Davis left because of suspected fraud. According to an article by [Mississippi Today](https://mississippitoday.org/2022/09/13/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare/) published this week, a series of text messages could contradict Favre's claims. Allegedly, $5 million went to the volleyball stadium project. 12 appear to show then-Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant helping Favre with the funding proposal for a new volleyball stadium at Southern Miss -- his alma mater and the same school where his daughter played volleyball. "Can we help him with his project.

Writer Jeff Pearlman is keeping his distance from a 2016 Brett Favre book he wrote after text messages revealed that former Mississippi Gov.

Most notable amongst the collection of texts are those filed by an attorney representing Nancy New, founder of the Mississippi Community Education Center. I don't know how someone like that looks in the mirror." Phil Bryant diverted welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi. Favre's daughter, Breleigh, played volleyball for the Golden Eagles from 2018 through 2022. Pearlman's book, "Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre," was published in 2016. He doesn't deserve the icon treatment.

Former Mississippi governor Phil Bryant, who left office in January 2020, has not been criminally charged in the welfare fraud case.

The state auditor reported that he [initially repaid $500,000](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/10/13/brett-favre-welfare-fraud/?itid=lk_inline_manual_14) and in May the Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a lawsuit against Favre, saying interest on the $1.1 million amounted to $228,000. Mississippi had the highest poverty rate in the nation, with 20.3 percent living below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Mississippi Community Education Center hired Favre Enterprises in 2017 and 2018 to make appearances to promote Families First for Mississippi, a program designed to help needy families, and Favre was a no-show for those. In it, he accused New’s defense team of being “more concerned with pretrial publicity than they are with civil justice.” The motion filed by New is the defendants’ first direct and public accusation of wrongdoing by Bryant. [told him](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22308549-exhibit-22) the next day, “Wow, just got off the phone with Phil Bryant! “If you were to pay me is there anyway the media can find out where it came from and how much?” a text showed Favre asked New in 2017.

His daughter was playing volleyball at Southern Miss, where Favre played college football.

The messages also show that Favre reportedly received a separate $1.1 million welfare contract to promote the program, with Favre offering to “record a few radio spots”; Favre reportedly repaid the $1.1 million, including $600,000 for speeches he never gave. Favre, who won a Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers in 1997, and Bryant have not been criminally charged. New told Favre that “we never have that information publicized” and then said Bryant was on board with the plan. State auditors say nonprofit leaders like New misspent at least $77 million in welfare funds in what’s reportedly the largest case of public fraud in Mississippi history. According to Mississippi Today, the Southern Miss. Phil Bryant helped Favre funnel at least $5 million in welfare funds to USM.

Sports Illustrated released a story Tuesday Night regarding Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre's involvement in a welfare scandal.

What comes of this remains to be seen, but right now, it looks like Brett Favre is in deeper trouble than he has ever faced in his career. The text messages are bad enough, as Wolfe reported and as [Anthony Antoine of NBC12](https://twitter.com/AnthonyNBC12/status/1569813133442666497?s=20&t=0fZCGDykj8dF6YiI1U9SCA) in Richmond, Virginia, highlighted. By the optics of this, Favre looks more and more disgraceful as details emerge, starting with stealing money from folks in Mississippi and using it for his daughter’s volleyball arena, of all things. [Nick Selbe](https://twitter.com/nickselbe?lang=en), who wrote this story for Sports Illustrated, and [Anna Wolfe of Mississippi Today](https://mississippitoday.org/2022/09/13/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare/)? At the same time, while he loves to highlight greatness, Pearlman is very straightforward in his work and will call it as he sees it, including this latest incident by Favre. It takes a lot for an author to come out and tell the public to no longer read his book or leave it alone.

The governor of Mississippi in 2017 was "on board'' with a plan for a nonprofit group to pay Brett Favre more than $1 million in welfare grant money so the ...

He also said his charity had provided millions of dollars to poor children in Mississippi and Wisconsin. Favre has repaid the money, but White said in October that Favre still owed $228,000 in interest. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. In May, the Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit against Favre, three former pro wrestlers and several other people and businesses to try to recover millions of misspent welfare dollars. Let's see what happens on Monday with the conversation with some of the folks at Southern. Favre has said in interviews that he supported Prevacus.