A recent court filing states that NFL legend and Hall of Famer Brett Favre, consistently sought funding for a new volleyball stadium at Southern Miss even after he was told it could be illegal.
A text sent to Favre on July 28, 2019, by former Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, said that the founder of a nonprofit who paid him retained some control over the dispersal of money from the welfare fund. However, that piece of information came with a warning.
As the court filing states, on September 4, 2019, Favre texted Bryant after a meeting to re-state the need to quickly secure funds and further stressed that he needed Bryant’s help to do so. Bryant wasn’t the only one to have concerns over the legalities of how Favre was proceeding in his attempt to acquire facility funding. According to the filing, Favre approached Bryant after he had left office to seek his help in obtaining a legislative appropriation to cover his personal debt. Bryant told Favre he would connect with then-Southern Miss President Rodney Bennett on the matter.
Phil Bryant, governor of Mississippi, listens during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Favre is among the defendants in the state’s civil lawsuit over misspent welfare funds. As first revealed in an investigation by Mississippi Today, state auditors determined that at least $77 million in welfare funds were misspent or stolen in the largest case of public fraud in state history.
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