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Mississippi welfare funds wound up in a Ghanaian gold bar hoax [View all]
Complicated...read at link
https://mississippitoday.org/2023/12/19/welfare-funds-ghana-scam-prevacus/
Mississippi welfare funds wound up in a Ghanaian gold bar hoax, court filing alleges
Text messages obtained by Mississippi Today and an aggressive new court filing from a key welfare scandal defendant chronicle how funds intended to help Mississippi’s poorest residents may have ended up in the hands of a Ghanaian scammer. The movie-like alleged scheme involves thousands in welfare funds that were never returned, a purported sale of gold bars, and a scientist’s threats to involve the FBI and former Gov. Phil Bryant.
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