Brett Favre and the Mississippi welfare fraud

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🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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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. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What about Brett Favre?
0:05.0	Brett Favre is in trouble.
0:10.0	You've probably heard some about this.
0:12.0	Millions of dollars that were meant for poor people in Mississippi instead went to fund
0:16.6	Favre's pet projects, including a volleyball stadium for his alma mater.
0:21.6	The question many of us have been asking,
0:23.6	What the hell is Brett Favre doing here?
0:25.6	Is a legitimate one.
0:27.1	What the hell is he doing here?
0:28.6	Why does a multi-millionaire need to rip off welfare money?
0:33.6	Well he didn't need to, but he did it anyway, and it wasn't just him.
0:37.4	This powerful and well-connected celebrity athlete had some powerful and well-connected friends
0:42.4	who facilitated his fraud and cheerfully committed their own along the way.
0:47.4	Coming up on today's plan, the Mississibians who stole from the poor and gave to themselves.
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