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Brett Favre was allegedly paid $1.1 million in Mississippi welfare money for appearances he didn’t make: audit

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Brett Favre allegedly paid $1.1 million in Mississippi welfare money for appearances he didn’t make: audit




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NFL star Brett Favre allegedly received $1.1 million in Mississippi welfare money for speeches and promotional work he didn’t perform, according to an audit of welfare fraud in the state.
© Ronald Martinez (File photo) Former NFL player Brett Favre looks on prior to Super Bowl 50 between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers at Levi's Stadium on February 7, 2016 in Santa Clara, California.
The Hall of Fame quarterback, 50, was paid $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018 through his company Favre Enterprises under a contract that called for three speaking engagements, one radio spot and one keynote address, the 104-page audit released Monday said.


“Auditors were able to determine that the individual contracted did not speak nor was he present for those events,” the audit found.
“Due to the inability to verify that any work was performed in order to fulfill the contract, and due to the unreasonable amount paid, the entire payment of $1,100,000 paid in FY 2018 is questioned,” the audit said.




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Favre, who spent the majority of his career with the Green Bay Packers, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily News.
Mississippi State Auditor Shad White said Monday that his office found that more than $94 million of federal grant money flowing through the Mississippi Department of Human Services was allegedly misspent, converted to personal use, spent on family members and friends or wasted.
The audit was released after a former Human Services director and five others were indicted on state charges of embezzling about $4 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds.
The defendants, charged earlier this year, have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial.


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“This completed audit of DHS for the previous year shows the most egregious misspending my staff have seen in their careers at the Office of the State Auditor,” White said in a statement Monday.
“When you read this one-hundred-plus page audit, you will see that, if there was a way to misspend money, it seems DHS leadership or their grantees thought of it and tried it,” he said.
 
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Mississippi Threatens to Sue Brett Favre Over $828,000

The former Green Bay Packers quarterback was among more than 10 people who received letters from the state auditor demanding repayment of tens of millions of dollars connected to an extensive welfare fraud scheme.
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Mississippi, the state that reveres the Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre as a homegrown hero, threatened this week to sue him if he does not repay $828,000 that he owes within 30 days, according to the state auditor.

Mr. Favre was among more than 10 people who were sent letters from the state auditor, Shad White, demanding repayment of tens of millions of dollars connected to an extensive fraud scheme involving misspent welfare aid.
In May 2020, a scathing audit found that the State of Mississippi had allowed millions of dollars in anti-poverty funds to be used in ways that did little or nothing to help the poor, with two nonprofit groups instead using the money on lobbyists, football tickets, religious concerts and fitness programs for state lawmakers.

The scheme led to criminal charges against six people, including the former executive director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, who was accused of conspiring with administrators at the nonprofit Mississippi Community Education Center and the center’s accountant to defraud taxpayers and create phony invoices. Mr. Favre has not been charged.


The former executive director, John Davis, must pay $96.3 million — which includes interest — for his role in authorizing more than $77 million in illegal welfare spending, Mr. White said.

Mr. White said that Mr. Favre, 52, had received $1.1 million from the Mississippi Community Education Center in speaking fees for appearances that he never made. The payments he received in December 2017 and June 2018 had been paid for with federal welfare grants, Mr. White said.

Mr. Favre had no knowledge that the money had been intended to benefit needy families, Mr. White said. Mr. Favre made a $500,000 payment to Mr. White’s office in May 2020 and agreed to pay the remaining $600,000 over the next few months, the auditor said.

But Mr. Favre never paid the remaining balance, Mr. White said. In a letter on Tuesday, the auditor demanded that Mr. Favre pay the $600,000 balance as well as an additional $228,000 in interest in 30 days or, he said, he would be required to initiate a lawsuit.


“It’s time for the taxpayers to attempt to recover what we lost,” Mr. White said in a statement.

The letter was addressed to Mr. Favre as well as to Favre Enterprises and Robert L. Culumber, a business associate. A representative for Mr. Favre did not immediately respond to messages on Wednesday, nor did Mr. Culumber.

Mr. Favre, who grew up in Mississippi and played football at the University of Southern Mississippi, spent 20 seasons in the National Football League, most of them with the Green Bay Packers, with whom he won Super Bowl XXXI in 1997.


In a series of tweets last year, Mr. Favre wrote that he had appeared in ads for a resource center in Mississippi that had been a recipient of welfare grants. He also said that he had never received any money for any obligations that he did not meet.

“To reiterate Auditors White’s statement, I was unaware that the money being dispersed was paid for out of funds not intended for that purpose, and because of that I am refunding the full amount back to Mississippi,” Mr. Favre wrote in May 2020.


Mr. Favre wrote that he had donated nearly $10 million through his Favre 4 Hope charity to help underprivileged and underserved children in Mississippi and Wisconsin.

“I would certainly never do anything to take away from the children I have fought to help!” he wrote. “I love Mississippi and I would never knowingly do anything to take away from those that need it most.”

The Mississippi Community Education Center had hired Favre Enterprises to appear at events, record promotions and provide autographs for marketing materials from July 1, 2017, to July 31, 2018, according to a state audit.

There was no mention of the contract price in the documents that were provided to state officials, the audit said.


The center provided a list of dates and events, saying Favre Enterprises had fulfilled the contract terms. But state officials said that auditors had determined that Mr. Favre did not speak, nor was he present at those events.

He is not the only prominent figure who, according to Mr. White, could be sued if they fail within 30 days to repay money connected to the fraud scheme.

Heart of David Ministry, a Christian ministry that is controlled by the former W.W.E. wrestler Ted DiBiase Sr., who is known as the Million Dollar Man, must repay $722,299, Mr. White said. The ministry and Mr. DiBiase did not immediately respond to messages.

One of Mr. DiBiase’s sons, Ted DiBiase Jr., who is also a former professional wrestler, must repay $3.9 million, Mr. White said. Another son, Brett DiBiase, who is also a former professional wrestler and was charged in connection with the fraud scheme last year, must pay $225,950, Mr. White said.


State auditors said that Brett DiBiase had been paid with welfare funds to teach classes about drug use. He never taught those classes, however, because he was being treated for an opioid addiction at the Rise in Malibu rehab center in California, auditors said.

Brett DiBiase pleaded guilty last year to one count of making fraudulent statements for the purpose of defrauding the government, according to The Clarion-Ledger.
 
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Favre repays $600K in Mississippi welfare case, auditor says
The Mississippi auditor says retired NFL player Brett Favre has repaid the welfare money he accepted for scheduled speeches where he didn't show up
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press
October 27, 2021, 7:44 PM
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JACKSON, Miss. -- Retired NFL player Brett Favre has repaid $600,000 in state welfare money he accepted for speeches where he didn't appear, but the state attorney general could sue Favre if he doesn’t pay interest owed on the amount, the Mississippi auditor said Wednesday.
Auditor Shad White said Favre paid the $600,000 to the auditor’s office this week. White sent the former Green Bay Packers quarterback a letter Oct. 12 demanding $828,000, which was the $600,000 plus $228,000 in interest.

Of the $228,000, White said: "If he does not pay that within 30 days of our demand, the AG will be responsible for enforcing the payment of the interest in court."
Favre is not facing criminal charges, but former Mississippi Department of Human Services director John Davis and other people have been charged in one of the state’s largest embezzlement cases. Allegations of misspending came to light in early 2020 when Davis and five others were indicted.
White said in May 2020 that Favre, who lives in Mississippi, had repaid $500,000 of the $1.1 million in welfare money he received for multiple no-show speeches. Favre was paid by Mississippi Community Education Center, a nonprofit group whose former leader is among those awaiting trial.
In a Facebook post when he repaid the first $500,000, Favre said he didn’t know the money he received came from welfare funds. He also said his charity had provided millions of dollars to poor children in Mississippi and Wisconsin.
White on Oct. 12 demanded that several people and organizations repay $77 million in misspent welfare money intended to help people in one of the poorest states in the nation. With interest, the demand jumped to $96 million. That included money sought from Favre.
White issued the demands about two weeks after a Maryland-based CPA firm issued an independent report about how the Mississippi Department of Human Services spent federal money from 2016 through 2019 through Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. The report found nearly $41 million in “questioned costs” for items including travel and programs to support college athletes.

White demanded the whole $96 million from Davis and most of it from Mississippi Community Education Center and another nonprofit organization, Family Resource Center. Davis left the Department of Human Services in July 2019.
Those indicted along with Davis were former professional wrestler Brett DiBiase; former Department of Human Services employee Latimer Smith; Nancy New, who has been the director of Mississippi Community Education Center and New Learning Resources; her son Zach New, who has been assistant executive director of the education center; and Anne McGrew, an accountant for the education center.
DiBiase pleaded guilty in December to one count of making a false statement. He said in court documents that he had submitted documents and received full payment for work he did not complete. He agreed to pay $48,000 in restitution, and his sentencing was deferred.
McGrew pleaded guilty on Oct. 11 to one charge of conspiracy to commit embezzlement for her role in the case. She awaits sentencing and has agreed to testify against others.
Davis, Smith, Nancy New and Zach New have all pleaded not guilty and await trial in state court.
Nancy New and Zach New also have been indicted on federal charges, have pleaded not guilty and await trial.
Mississippi Community Education Center, operating as Families First for Mississippi, received more than $44 million in government grants from mid-2014 to mid-2018, according to nonprofit tax filings. Amounts spiked to $12.9 million and $26.7 million in the final two years, as Davis outsourced a large portion of Mississippi’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Families spending to the group.

 
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