A brand new Netflix documentary is shining a brighter gentle on Brett Favre and his involvement in a Mississippi welfare scandal that has saved the previous NFL star in sizzling water for years.
The hour-long doc, Untold: The Fall of Favre, which premiered this week, particulars Favre’s alleged involvement within the Non permanent Help for Needy Households (TANF) welfare scandal, which started in Might 2020. The doc additionally examines Favre’s 2010 sexting scandal, in keeping with Folks.
As NewsOne has beforehand reported, in 2022, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White revealed that $70 million in TANF welfare funds had been dished out to a multimillionaire athlete, knowledgeable wrestler, a horse farm and a volleyball complicated. A kind of recipients of the welfare cash was none apart from Corridor of Fame quarterback Brett Favre.
From $70 million, $8.1 million was allegedly given to entities tied to Brett Favre. Based on studies, Favre was paid $1.1 million in federal welfare funds in 2017 and 2018 for motivational speeches he allegedly by no means gave.
Textual content messages had been then launched that instructed former Gov. Phil Bryant helped channel at the least $5 million of the state’s welfare funds right into a volleyball stadium mission for Brett Favre and the College of Southern Mississippi. Favre’s daughter performed volleyball for the college, and he acquired many of the fundraising credit score for the mission.
White says Brett Favre nonetheless owes the state practically $730,000 for his involvement.
Favre has lengthy denied any wrongdoing within the alleged scandal and has not been criminally charged on the state or federal stage. He’s additionally tried to sue media personalities who criticized his involvement.
In October 2023, a federal decide dismissed Brett Favre’s defamation lawsuit in opposition to Shannon Sharpe for connecting and criticizing Favre’s involvement within the Mississippi welfare scandal. Favre sued Sharpe, claiming Sharpe made “egregiously false” statements about Favre’s involvement within the welfare scandal on the then-Fox Sports activities speak present, Skip and Shannon: Undisputed.
Favre additionally filed defamation fits in opposition to sports activities commentator and former school kicker Pat McAfee and Shad White, the State Auditor, who revealed that Favre was linked to the alleged fraud scheme.
Former NFL Quarterback Michael Vick, now the coach at Norfolk State, was interviewed within the documentary, calling out the double commonplace within the public highlight in the case of some former athletes.
“Folks go to jail for stealing cash on a regular basis,” Vick say on the documentary. “If it’s that essential, the best establishments can get entangled. However, you realize, some persons are untouchable in sure methods and that’s simply the way in which it’s. I simply assume that’s kinda how the system is rigged. You already know, some conditions should be performed out in court docket. Some should be performed out within the public.”
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