Anna Wolfe, a Mississippi Today reporter, discusses the new texts show how involved Brett Favre was in a Mississippi welfare scandal. State and federal investigations are ongoing in this misuse of funds scandal.
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Forget about the adults, they stole from the poorest of children. Children who can’t earn an income, get a job, or play NFL football for millions of dollars. They stole from kids.
No worries,we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing
Wealthy white conservatives are so evil. Already so much ahead of the rest of society and they pile on.
Well, the texts might not be indicative of anything illegal. Does anyone want to weigh in on this?
Didn’t Favre get paid hundreds of millions dollars by the Green Bay Packers?…Why didn’t he use his own money?…
Farve throws a pick 6. As in he may have picked 6 years behind bars
Charge him and throw him in jail like they would do if it were one of us, PERIOD.
ESPN VERY QUIET.. cause he ain’t a Black Player..Also this will be washed under the bridge with no accountability by anyone..
You all have to simmer down, the reason they gave the money to farve is because republicans believe in trickle down economics… you see, poor people would just waste the money on food and such, where farve had a gym built… the gym will last many years so now Mississippi people have something to show off…. Never mind that that tax money came from blue states…. Mississippi votes red every year so they approve of this… il
What is poignantly repugnant in all of this, is that while Favre was criticizing Black ball players for raising their voices and protesting against unfairness and discrimination against African Americans, he was actually engaged in such racist unfairness and discrimination. He was taking money provided for the poorest in Mississippi, most of whom were African Americans, to spend on the school his privileged daughter was attending. That is as low as anyone can get.
And Colin simply took a knee for the mistreated. Whose American, now?
Mississippi is like Afghanistan already….someone’s going to federal prison over this.
What too media so long I bet if he was black it would on all media nd he will be prosecuted
Wow Brett farve needs to give all that money back
I’m pretty sure if u go to other states it’s same ponzy
I’m pretty sure stealing welfare money is worse than kneeling
Real journalism.
This bigger, older and more devastating problem to the US working class and needy people and US economy. All states Including Mississippi corrupt leaders that dole out federal funds and have access to that money and know exactly how to steal it so of course Mississippi corrupt racist politicians who have stolen that money throwing Brett Favre under the bus for distraction and deflection. This exactly how bipartisan corrupt kleptocrats in congress loots the US economy because anyone who thinks this a new issue or only involves thefts and misappropriation in nasty and racist Mississippi of Federal funds, meant to poor, needy and working class citizens think again. ☮️
Remember more than 90% are denied this welfare benefits!
What is everyone so surprised, isn’t he a die hard Trump supporter???
This is going to be s great Netflix special.
This is a triple doink
Is it strange that farve hasn’t been charged nor will he be. He’s a Trump guy so he’s getting attacked. Think he didn’t ask enough questions but I don’t think farve knew exactly where the money came from.
I want to wait till all the facts come out before I judge.
Evil
Remember when Republicans were pushing the racist Black Welfare Queen trope to GOTV with white voters. Apparently the real welfare Queens our Brett Favre and Republicans.
Theft from the poor or programs to help the poor?
Republicans of course.
Brett Favre, welfare queen. I’ll bet his daughter is really proud of him now.
So ummm Kaepernick is a better person
Shame on bret
Brett Farve sending a text message and Tiger Woods sending a voicemail both have one thing in common, those situations should stay away from said individuals
It’s way bigger than Brett. We know the governor helped meaning he’s done it before
Welfare money??? Wow. You just don’t take welfare money. I understand there are big money games in the government but you don’t divert money away from Welfare.
Stories like this make me sick and brings shame to Mississippi that we don’t not. Shameful!!!! We as Mississippians are better than this.
Brett could just use his own money. He has plenty of money . Makes no sense.
Thats what we all thought…greedy seeks greedy
Let’s see if white America will crucify Brett like they did Michael Vick. We’ll wait
I’m a conservative and this is awful. Even if Farve has CTE, it doesn’t take much thinking for the Rich not to steal from the poor
You can give a million dollars a year to each one of them poor people in Mississippi and they would still be poor!
Mississippi – where you only qualify for benefits if you’re already a millionaire.
This former governor of Mississippi! Phil Bryant is the nephew of Carolyn Bryant you do remember her right?? She’s is the racist white women who falsely accused Emmett Till of whistling at her 67 year’s ago. Her ex deceased husband Roy 💀 Bryant and his half brother kidnap him and brutally murder him and the summer of August of 1955 so 🤷 him and Brett Favre both we’re defaulting welfare recipients out of millions of dollar’s and it’s. Been going on for a while and now it just started to get some media attention this definitely the worst of the worst definitely unbelievable time’s that we are living in isn’t it???
Tell me more about those Republican run states…
Lock everyone who’s involved up…ASAP
And just like that Farve shows he’s always been a POS
It’s obviously the poorest state for a reason.. they are oppressing their own people
This is why we need local newspapers…to she sunlight on corrupt state and local politics. The plutes have been slowly dismantling the local newspaper nationwide for just this reason.
Well now we know why Brett favre is a Republican they lie steal and cheat.
Nothing will happen to Favre.
He is a dump truck!
Brett favre stolen money from them folks in Mississippi and the governor
This is beyond abhorrent! Im pretty sure those in power do this all the time though, they just don’t get caught
HES A GOTDAMN THEIF……this is no real secret when it comes to WHITE FOLKS and that MONEY some of them LOVE!!! to STEAL🤨I wish I had some if those tactics that those white folks use to STEAL billions?? Let’s TALK ABOUT THIS ✌🏾.
Sad thing is they’ll still vote red down there
S L E A Z Y!
I can guarantee you this happens alot more than we may think. City Council members & the same non profits constantly getting the same grants.
they don’t choose life, they chose greed instead. If you keep voting for these types of people you are a m%^$n. Imagine if the feds weren’t involved in this? they would keep this going. follow the money!!!
Did he think it would stay covered up.Thats shameful..They fumbled and got caught..Stealing from the poor..
Of course the doofus-looking new republican Mississippi governor has fallen right in line trying to cover things up.
I had a Brett Favre signed helmet. After I found this out, I SOLD IT ! There went his legacy.
Well, it’s ok for Nancy and her family to get free covid money. It’s ok for Hunter and his family to take taxpayer money.. 🤔 But Democracy is safe…. 😂🤣
These millionaires who stole money designated for the poor? No worries!
Just whine into an empty sky Sunday.
Beg dead air for forgiveness.
Go right back to screwing your neighbor Monday to Saturday,
With a nice freshly cleaned conscience!
See how that works?
how is this just a scandal and NOT a crime???
And yet nothing on Hunter
He did it because he knows they’ll be no consequences. So far nothing but crickets.
Wow, I am so surprised that Republicans were at the Center of this Corruption, not!
Under investigation is code for no one is going to jail.
LOL Gone unnoticed by MS State Leaders. What a huge misleading statement. DHS misspent 77 million dollars under a Republican administration. MS State Legislature will not support any investigation showing how corrupt they are. Hence they are fully aware of this scandal. They just choose to ignore it.
They Both went to the same college…wow
What else is a new. Welfare fraud? Lol
Imagine if this were Mike Vick or Terrel Owens
What you do in the dark shall come to light.
Put him in prison you theif
Hundreds of thousands of people’s accounts were frozen because of fraud! Many lost homes, cars and more during that time and many were evicted! It’s not enough that this wealthy ex quarterback who made millions…it’s not enough that he just gets to pay it back! So far, the others who did this had to go to jail! Every single act of fraud contributed to the freezing of legitimate accounts for people in need!!!
ENTITLEMENT AND PRIVILEGED MINDSET…….GD DISGRACED….LOCK THEM ALL UP. HE COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS ALONE.. HISTORICALLY, MISSISSIPPI IS THE MOST RACIST STATE IN THE COUNTRY, NECK AND NECK WITH ALABAMA.
A needy black man who stole $9 back in the 1980s is jailed for life but a former NFL player, a governor and an executive steal over 70 million and won’t get any time! Sounds like America to me!
Why doesn’t it surprise me that the guy is a Republican! ITS NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PEOPLE! Your State government has been “keeping” you all in the poor! They steel your money for their own Intrest! Vote Blue and you will see a change in your quality of life. But we need your votes to get ride of corruption in the States!!
A LIVING WAGE
IS NOT THE SAME AS
MINIMUM WAGE.
Why is it that you are not allowed to make more than $2,200. a month to get welfare assistance?
They do this while putting out propaganda that welfare is socialism. They hate it, unless they’re the only ones to benefit. A bunch of pos hypocrites!
Another so called Christian who is the opposite of Jesus
Brett Favre is a welfare king with his rich self. WTF does he need that for?!?! Lock him up for that.
Folks, forgive the pun…but stop trying to armchair “quarterbacks” this garbage. It’s so poorly thought out and executed I can’t believe more channels and YouTube creators aren’t calling this out for BS. The whole thing looks half baked and hurried, but when you realize it’s only about a month away from the most important election and one of the most influential celebrities in the world, a straight up living legend with megatons of pull on voters endorses Donald Trump. Well now…. that’s a horse of a different color now isn’t it? 🤔
Every state needs to be audited and investigated. I bet most states are doing this.
This seems way too easy to defraud the system and appears to be a very long running fraud.
Yes he did
Republican millionaire stealing from the poor. Not surprise.
Brett Farve is another one who should be exiled
The indictments will get these loonatics out of the public eye to rot in prison for Treason.
The Justice Dept. tolerance for lawlessness needs to be addressed. Statements should have already been made by Justice to go after Abbott, DeSantis and Ducey for HUMAN TRAFICKING!! Why hasn’t Pelosi kicked out the 11 Congressmen / Congresswomen for participating in the insurrection and exercised the 14th Amendment? What’s is LAW Enforcement without Strong Law Enforcement?
It’ll be nice to finally see a white republican pay for his crimes
Brett Favre is evil!!
People may not like it but the fact is Favre signed a contract with the state of MS. After that it is up to the financial/fiscal authorities to determine what budget unit to pay it from and or if it they will choose to pay it from the general fund. Favre has no responsibility in regards to what account they choose to pay him, that is a fiscal decision by those in charge. Don’t blame Favre, this is an internal issue involving the Governor, the Comptroller, and the head of Social Services.
More of the same thing
I recall people acting like Mike Vick was the devil.
Lord help Mississippi 🙏🏿 😫
3:45
Mississippi
3 million populous
ONLY 200 recipients?! 😮
The whole state govt needs to be indicted!
Brett Favre needs to be brought up on charges! Just because he’s white and a little older now, he doesn’t need to be given a “Pass” on this. Unreal!
Favre guilty
Anna Wolfe… What a great young Louis Laine
God damned Republicans!!!
Wow 😡😡😡