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Investigating Brett Favre and the Mississippi Welfare Fraud Scandal

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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

The temporary assistance for needy families programm, a federal programm. The programme was designed to give states a ton of flexibility. But the problem with that is if you have a state who has a broken tanif system, and who wants to reward politically powerful people with that money it's easy for the states to get away with that. We had a state agency director who was giving huge chunks of this money to a non profit here in town,. He was making demands on how that money should be spent. Sometimes those demands were in violation of federal law. And then on the other end at the non Profit, once they saw that the money could be misspent and that no one was really

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