BY MICHAEL GOLDBERG JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will answer questions under oath about the misspending of federal welfare money in Mississippi, where public money intended to help some of the nation’s poorest people was used to…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will remain as a defendant in a civil lawsuit that seeks to recover millions of dollars of misspent welfare money that was supposed to help some of the neediest…
NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre has hired an attorney to represent him in the Mississippi Department of Human Services scandal. Although Favre has not been charged in the investigation, he hired former White House counsel Eric Herschmann to…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former Mississippi Department of Human Services director has been indicted on 20 additional felony charges tied to allegations that he participated in misusing money that was supposed to help some of…
A multi-million dollar embezzlement scheme involving the Mississippi Department of Human Services is being called the biggest of its kind in state history. Perhaps the biggest NFL quarterback to emerge from this state is linked to that gross amount of…
State Auditor Shad White today says millions of dollars from the Mississippi Department of Human Services were misspent, converted to personal use, spent on family members and friends of staffers and grantees, or wasted. The 100 plus page audit of…
Six hundred and fifty seven finalized adoptions rounded out 2019.