almost cartoonish scandal. if it were not so devastating. a multi millionaire football star, a guy who does not who i don t, know could give his daughter s school check, this guy brett favre, republican governor, appeared to be involved in the scandal with the misuse of federal dollars. federal dollars for the poorest members of the poorest state. diverted to a volleyball facility. even as dan governor for brian, of course, of course preach the gospel. of so-called fiscal responsibility when he was in office. i wanted to give mississippians ahead not gained success, had not lived the american dream, wanted to give them hope that they could do. that to break that generational cycle of poverty. and the dependency the government actually lead in two. so, we had families that had for three generations never
favre s daughter is going to play in. favre also met with then-governor phil bryant, who reportedly texted new quote, just left brett favre can we help him with his project, we should meet soon to see how we can make sure we keep a verdict on course. again, he is talking to the woman who oversees welfare money from the federal government. now, phil brian denies any involvement. the plan to use welfare funds to construct the i have to say very nice volleyball facility. he is not responded to our request to comment on the story, that we would love to hear from him. the woman who ran the nonprofit, nancy knew, reportedly coughed up $4 million in misused welfare money and when that was not enough, she then allegedly paid favre. brett favre, millionaire brett favre. and additional one point $1 million personally to him supposedly for radio ads paid for out of the fund for welfare
funds and was mississippi. trying nfl hall of famer brett favre and the state s former governor might have been more deeply involved than first known. text messages included in nearly released court documents show favre asked then governor phil brian for help. soaking state money for a college volleyball facility where favre s daughter played the sport. and bryant sent him to the state welfare agency. favre soon began texting with a nonprofit executive who was doubling out millions in federal funds sent to mississippi for families in poverty. new has since pleaded guilty to fraud and is cooperating with prosecutors. after new was able to secure $4 million and welfare funds for the volleyball project. favre texted very big deal and can t thank you enough. two years later, favre asked for more money. just left brett favre brian texted in 2019. can we help him with his project? text messages show new proposed paying for one point $1 million for radio ads. but the text show that favre
from outside. i have to admit, myself, as i ve been following the story of just first start with nancy new, this individual. how it was that she appeared to have like unlimited veto proof authority of how to spend tens of millions of dollars from the federal government for poor people in mississippi? sure, thank you for having the first of all and thank you for caring about this story and about mississippi. nancy knew was nonprofit founder who was actually really good friends with phil bryant s wife. and phil bryant was overseeing the department of human services, that is the welfare agency that vests this morning. he told his director that he wanted welfare grants and these are grants that go to organizations to provide services to people in poverty. like workforce development, the stuff that brian was just talking about in that earlier interview. and, he wanted the director to consolidate those grants to essentially giving them to one
welfare funds. book in 2012, brett favre had this idea of building a new volleyball stadium at usm and was trying to find money from different sources, and somehow that connected with the welfare department. he was good friends with phil brian before that, so we re still trying to kind of piece together, you know, how he ended up having this conversation with the held of the welfare department and this nonprofit founder, nancy new. when he met with them, they immediately committed $4 million out of this welfare fund to build the volleyball stadium and to get the project really rolling they kind of had to goat the governor on board, and the text messages that we revealed this week show how that process went. you re a native of mississippi. poverty is the highest in the country in that state, welfare obviously critical to helping people survive. no, willie, and anna s reporting has just been jaw