Brett Favre to repay state $1.1 million for speeches he never gave in MS welfare scandal
Source: Jackson, Mississippi, Clarion Ledger
Brett Favre to repay state $1.1 million for speeches he never gave in MS welfare scandal
Luke Ramseth, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 5:27 p.m. CT May 6, 2020 | Updated 5:53 p.m. CT May 6, 2020
Brett Favre is paying Mississippi back $1.1 million in welfare money he received for speaking engagements and other purposes, according to State Auditor Shad White.
White said the former star NFL quarterback paid his office $500,000 on Wednesday and he would "repay the remainder in installments over the next few months." The auditor said the money will eventually be sent to the Mississippi Department of Human Services for welfare-related expenditures.
Favre received funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, or TANF, in 2017 and 2018, according to a report the auditor released Monday. The money came through the Department of Human Services and a nonprofit, the Mississippi Community Education Center, or MCEC. The audit said the nonprofit paid Favre's company, Favre Enterprises, $1.1 million for appearances, promotions, autographs and speaking engagements that he didn't attend.
Auditors wrote that Favre "did not speak nor was he present for those events." They added the amount he made in the deal was "unreasonable."
"I want to applaud Mr. Favre for his good faith effort to make this right and make the taxpayers and TANF families whole," White said in a statement. "To date, we have seen no records indicating Mr. Favre knew that TANF was the program that served as the source of the money he was paid."
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Alacritous Crier
(3,813 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)FFS.
It's not Farve, it's Favrhe. (Difficult to spell phonetically but anyone who has a smattering of French will understand).
Disgusting individual from the get-go -- a phone "Christian" who gives real Christians (followers of Christ) a bad name.
DURHAM D
(32,606 posts)are going to jail.
lostnfound
(16,162 posts)SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)Nothing more needs to be said. He never would have returned the money had he not been caught.
marble falls
(57,013 posts)for work he didn't do. Ethics has no place in MS.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Whadadick!
jpak
(41,757 posts)Felony fraud.
If he was AA and took a knee, they would have lynched him.
Yup
maxsolomon
(33,252 posts)"To date, we have seen no records indicating Mr. Favre knew that TANF was the program that served as the source of the money he was paid."
And you never will!
EarthFirst
(2,899 posts)It just shows up; and life goes on.
Meanwhile $1200 is meaningful amount of money to millions of Americans.
central scrutinizer
(11,637 posts)I blame the cat. She is always bringing shit in.
dhill926
(16,317 posts)he wouldn't have done shit if he hadn't been caught...
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Journeyman
(15,026 posts)$1.1 million for appearances, promotions, autographs and speeches? And the auditors felt it was an unreasonable sum because he didn't attend or speak at the events?
Seems to me, it doesn't matter that Mr Favre didn't know where the money came from. His character is defined by his accepting money and not performing what he was paid for.
Sleazeball. Guess he had to pick up some sort of activity after football.
PJMcK
(21,998 posts)Consider this quote in good faith:
Bret Favre is a very rich man. He made millions of dollars every year for decades. If his managers/agents booked dates for him, he would follow the calendar and take care of business. If the schedule changed, he wouldn't think about the fees since he had other business keeping him busy.
Unlike most of us, however, he wouldn't be receiving/cashing/accounting for the income from the speeches. In fact, I'd be very surprised if he even knew the money had arrived. As I wrote, he's a very rich man and he has professionals to take care of his finances.
If he makes good as it appears he's going to do, I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)If you think about it, it's possible that the $1.1M was subsequently taken from Favre's account and funneled somewhere else without him ever knowing he 'had it'.
People as wealthy as Favre often just have accountants, and they pay them to worry about their money, they don't necessarily know that they have a $1M more today than they did yesterday.
Think about it ... what would the point have been for the people running this scam ... to just hand some rich ex-NFL player $1.1M ... to do nothing? To what benefit?
Either he was deep into this scam/literally a part of it ... or I'd say there's every chance that $1.1M was given to him, and then removed by someone unscrupulous within his own circle ... without his even knowing.
I'll be watching with interest to see what shakes out later.
Demonaut
(8,914 posts)does not know where 1.1 million came from?
keithbvadu2
(36,672 posts)Who approved a large payout for no result?
Someone is his friend.
George II
(67,782 posts)He got caught. He never should have accepted the payment in the first place. Giving back $1+M that he KNEW he didn't deserve is nothing to be applauded.
Rebl2
(13,471 posts)a typical republican to me
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