Brett Favre’s Appeal Denied by the Mississippi Supreme Court

Brett Favre has been under fire for being part of the largest case of public fraud in Mississippi state history. The Hall of Fame Quarterback is named in a civil lawsuit filed by the Mississippi Department of Human Services seeking to recover Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds that were diverted to Favre and 37 other financially sound defendants. A state audit found that at least $77 million in welfare funds were misspent and Favre seems to have played some part in taking money from the poorest people in the poorest state of the USA.

The Department of Human Services’ lawsuit, filed in 2022, says money from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program was improperly spent including several projects Favre supported. He allegedly took $5 million from the TANF funds for a volleyball arena at the university where his daughter played the sport. Then Favre followed that up by contributing 1.7 million dollars in misused funds to the development of a concussion treatment drug by Prevacus, a drug company that Favre is an investor and stockholder.

Favre has put in an enormous amount of effort to have the case dismissed, and currently reports have

come out that Favre is failing to comply with discovery requests. He specifically has been accused of failing to surrender text messages. Other defendants in the case have turned over text messages that Favre has been the recipient and sender of, but Favre claims he could not clarify the “authenticity” of the text messages.

Last week in their filing to the state Supreme Court, Favre’s attorneys argued that Department of Human Services officials and Nancy New, who directed a nonprofit organization with Human Services contracts, “concocted and carried out the scheme” to direct welfare money toward a volleyball center, and that Favre was not part of the effort. Attorneys for the state responded that Favre took $1.1 million in TANF money from Nancy New “for speeches he never made.”

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled last week that it would not remove Brett Favre as a defendant in the civil lawsuit that seeks recovery of misspent welfare money. A panel of three justices issued a brief ruling denying Favre’s appeal. Farve’s feet are being held to the fire with this ruling and in the next few months we will be discovering more about his involvement and what it seems like he is hiding. This is a disappointing and gross allegation for someone held in such high regard. When there is smoke there is fire. The people of Mississippi, specifically the families and individuals that need the TANF funds deserve to find out the truth.