This shouldn’t come as a surprise to Brett Favre but he is being sued by the state of Mississippi that also includes former RB Marcus Dupree, LB Paul Lacoste, former wrestler Ted “the Million Dollar Man” DiBiase, and others.
Last year, the state threatened to sue the NFL HoF for funds he received for speeches that he never gave and even though he had already paid around $500k they said he owed over $800k more and had 30 days to pay it back plus interest.
The money that he received was welfare money and was supposed to go to people that really needed it. Favre allegedly used his influence with powerful people in Mississippi to get the welfare funds.
Now, according to WLBT3 in Mississippi, the state has filed a $24 million lawsuit against Favre and others.
The lawsuit details bold disregard from officials and contractors for either effective public spending or for the people they were supposed to be assisting — actions indicative of a state government with a cynical approach to anti-poverty programs.
“I do not understand these people,” attorney Brad Pigott, who wrote the lawsuit, told Mississippi Today by email. “What kind of person would decide that money the law required to be spent helping the poorest people in the poorest state would be better spent being doled out by them to their own families, their own pet projects, and their own favorite celebrities?”
But two entities who received welfare funds through activities referenced in recent criminal pleas — University of Southern Miss Athletic Foundation and tech company Lobaki Inc. — do not appear as defendants in the May 9 filing.
In the lawsuit, they are asking for $3.2 million from Favre who they allegedly have texts from to prove his involvement.
Wonder if they will get close to what they’re asking for knowing Favre they probably won’t.
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