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Brett Favre is in trouble for using welfare money to fund pet projects. He didn't need to, but he did it anyway. Some of his well-connected friends facilitated the fraud and cheerfully committed their own along the way. There's a big new gay movie out; one of its stars says when you're making a gay movie that you want straight people to watch, you tread carefully.

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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