Brett Favre - A Legend in Mississippi

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Brett Favre's celebrity afforded him a door to reach the state's top officials, which includes welfare officials. He used that opportunity to seek funding for his pet projects so that he didn't have to pay for them himself. "Welfare was a fund that the state officials knew that they could manipulate for his benefit"

An extraordinary case of fraud is unfolding in Mississippi, where a chummy cadre of nonprofit leaders, elected officials, and professional athletes redirected tens of millions in welfare funds toward their own pet projects. Mississippi Today’s Anna Wolfe explains.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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