Brett Favre Speaks Out After Agreeing to Repay $1 Million for Speeches He Never Gave
Brett Favre will return the $1.1 million in Mississippi state welfare money he received for speaking engagements he never participated in, the state auditor announced Wednesday. According to the Associated Press, via NBC News, Auditor Shad White said Favre had already refunded $500,000 and agreed to repay the remaining $600,000 in installments over the next few months. In a spending audit released Monday, the Mississippi Department of Human Services was shown to have spent millions of dollars in federal welfare grant funds that didn't actually benefit the state's impoverished communities.
Between 2017 and 2018, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [Tanf] program paid...
