Text messages obtained by Mississippi Today show how Brett Favre pressed Mississippi welfare officials to steer taxpayer funds to his pet projects — one of which he planned to profit from. More from our investigation 'The Backchannel':
by Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today April 6, 2022 Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre had a way with Mississippi government officials. Whether the football star was looking for funds to boost a startup company that he thought would make him rich or angling to take credit for building a new volleyball stadium at his alma mater, Favre knew he could count on Mississippi’s governor, the state’s welfare chief and a grant-funded nonprofit director to help him out.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.Anna Wolfe, a native of Tacoma, Wa., is an investigative reporter writing about poverty and economic justice. Before joining the staff at Mississippi Today in September of 2018, Anna worked for three years at Clarion Ledger, Mississippi’s statewide daily newspaper.
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