which was over $2 billion. - our budget is painful but necessary medicine. - hundreds of millions of dollars less to the mta for subways and transit. health and hospitals, cut. everything is slashed. - he lived up to his campaign promises of trying to reduce the welfare rolls. - food stamp use, slashed. - rudy does have the instincts of a wartime general. he needs an adversary. he needs a fight. - when rudy was elected, i hoped that would be the beginning of a productive relationship between us. i was the state controller, chief fiscal officer of the state and also the chief auditor of the state. one of my responsibilities as state controller was to audit all municipal agencies throughout the state. and rudy refused. he said that i could not audit city agencies. i had to go to court to sue him to allow me to perform my constitutional responsibilities.
- hundreds of millions of dollars less to the mta for subways and transit. health and hospitals, cut. everything is slashed. - he lived up to his campaign promises of trying to reduce the welfare rolls. - food stamp use, slashed. - rudy does have the instincts of a wartime general. he needs an adversary. he needs a fight. - when rudy was elected, i hoped that would be the beginning of a productive relationship between us. i was the state controller, chief fiscal officer of the state and also the chief auditor of the state. one of my responsibilities as state controller was to audit all municipal agencies throughout the state. and rudy refused. he said that i could not audit city agencies. i had to go to court to sue him to allow me to perform my constitutional responsibilities. we went to court, and a judge came back with a very strong ruling in our favor.
i mean, it s only second to that. - he came in, and there was a huge budget deficit, which was over $2 billion. - our budget is painful but necessary medicine. - hundreds of millions of dollars less to the mta for subways and transit. health and hospitals, cut. everything is slashed. - he lived up to his campaign promises of trying to reduce the welfare rolls. - food stamp use, slashed. - rudy does have the instincts of a wartime general. he needs an adversary. he needs a fight. - when rudy was elected, i hoped that would be the beginning of a productive relationship between us. i was the state controller, chief fiscal officer of the state and also the chief auditor of the state. one of my responsibilities as state controller was to audit all municipal agencies throughout the state. and rudy refused. he said that i could not audit city agencies. i had to go to court to sue him to allow me to perform
mississippi. i don t think that s going to happen, buddy. favre was paid $1.1 million it was alleged. he paid back the money. the state is looking to collect over $200,000 in interest. the former quarterback has denied any wrongdoing in the case. where do we begin? where do we begin? a guy that s this multimillionaire, talking to the governor, figuring out how to skim money off of the welfare rolls in one of the poorest states in the country? highest rate of poverty in the united states of america. they need every nickel of the money. he is a millionaire many, many times over. initially, a lot of this welfare scam was to build a volleyball arena at southern miss university, which he could have paid for himself. because his daughter was attending the school. played there.
in april 2017. court records showed he secured $5 million but needed more. even after state auditors raised questions, favre kept lobbying. in september 2019 he texted bryant he wanted to name the volleyball complex after the governor. we need your help big time and time is working against us. bryant replied, we re going to get there, but we have to follow the law. i am too old for federal prison. the former governor says he did not know officials used millions from the federal welfare program to construct the sports complex. bryant s former welfare director pleaded guilty to state and federal crimes last week in the growing scandal and agreed to cooperate with the fbi, which has been investigating welfare misspending for two years. nbc s ken dilanian reporting there. joe, the thing that continues to get you about this is that allegedly we see favre trying to get this money from the welfare rolls when the dude made more than $100 million in his nfl career. he was so desperate to buil