Brett Favre was allegedly paid $1.1 million in Mississippi welfare money for appearances he didn’t make: audit

The FBI recently raided the Hinds County DA's office, business. They also visited City Hall

After the FBI raided both the business and the office of Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens last week, reports surfaced the feds also paid a visit to Jackson's City Hall.

Charlie Drape
Mississippi Clarion Ledger
May 28, 2024


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic.

“This is completely beyond the pale,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said in court on Monday. “This is outrageous behavior. This is stuff that happens in mob movies.”

These seven are the first of 70 defendants expected to go to trial in a conspiracy that cost taxpayers $250 million. Eighteen others have pleaded guilty, and authorities said they recovered about $50 million in one of the nation's largest pandemic-related fraud cases. Prosecutors say just a fraction of the money went to feed low-income kids, while the rest was spent on luxury cars, jewelry, travel and property.

During the trial that began in April, defense attorneys questioned the quality of the FBI's investigation and suggested that this might be more of a case of record-keeping problems than fraud as these defendants sought to keep up with rapidly changing rules for the food aid program.

These seven initial defendants were affiliated with a restaurant that participated in the food aid program. Those still awaiting trial include Feeding our Future's founder Aimee Bock, who has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing.

The 23-year-old juror said she immediately turned over the bag of cash to police. She said a woman left it with her father-in-law Sunday with the message that she’d get another bag of cash if she voted to acquit, according to a report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Defense attorney Andrew Birrell told the judge that the bag of cash is “a troubling and upsetting accusation.”

Before allowing the trial to continue with more closing arguments on Monday, U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel questioned the remaining 17 jurors and alternates, and none reported any unauthorized contact. Brasel decided to sequester the jury for the rest of the proceeding as a precaution.

“I don’t do it lightly,” Brasel said. “But I want to ensure a fair trial.”

She didn’t decide immediately whether to detain the defendants, but she did order an FBI agent to confiscate the defendants’ phones.

The aid money came from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and was administered by the state Department of Education. Nonprofits and other partners under the program were supposed to serve meals to kids.

Two of the groups involved, Feeding Our Future and Partners in Nutrition, were small nonprofits before the pandemic, but in 2021 they disbursed around $200 million each. Prosecutors allege they produced invoices for meals that were never served, ran shell companies, laundered money, indulged in passport fraud and accepted kickbacks.
 




I wasn't a fan of Favre's to begin with but this made me not like him after he threw his teammate under the bus....
 
Judge in Mississippi Welfare Case Boots Brett Favre’s Lead Lawyer

Hinds County Circuit Court Judge E. Faye Peterson, who is presiding over the lawsuit to recover millions in misspent welfare funds, wrote that multiple recent filings by Favre’s legal team have had a “pattern and practice of delicate deception with ongoing misapplication of this State’s case law.”

BY A.J. Perez
JULY 12, 2024


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Hinds County Circuit Court Judge E. Faye Peterson
 
Judge in Mississippi Welfare Case Boots Brett Favre’s Lead Lawyer

Hinds County Circuit Court Judge E. Faye Peterson, who is presiding over the lawsuit to recover millions in misspent welfare funds, wrote that multiple recent filings by Favre’s legal team have had a “pattern and practice of delicate deception with ongoing misapplication of this State’s case law.”

BY A.J. Perez
JULY 12, 2024


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Hinds County Circuit Court Judge E. Faye Peterson
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SHE IS A HBCU GRADUATE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAH
 
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Today Jake Vanlandingham, Brett Favre’s former business partner, pleaded guilty in federal court for his role in the large Mississippi welfare scandal.

I applaud federal prosecutors for their continued work on this case. I’m grateful for my team at the Auditor’s office and the FBI for digging up the facts related to this case.

We will continue to assist federal prosecutors as needed going forward.
 
The Window to Charge Brett Favre in the Mississippi Welfare Case Is Closing

A.J. Perez
Front Office Sports
July 29, 2024


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John Davis, Nancy New, Zach New, Teddy DiBiase Jr., Jake VanLandingham and Brett Favre attended a Jan. 2, 2019, meeting at Brett Favre’s home in Lamar County, Miss. Since 2020, prosecutors have charged all except Favre in connection with the Mississippi welfare scandal.
 
Prosecutor in Welfare Scandal That Ensnared Favre Is Subject of FBI Bribery Probe

District Attorney Jody Owens and Jackson mayor Chokwe Lumumba are both subjects of the federal probe. The probe is separate from the ongoing federal investigations in the welfare scandal.

BY A.J. PEREZ
AUGUST 15, 2024


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Hinds County District Attorney, Jody Owens (D)

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Jackson, MS. Mayor, Chokwe Lumumba (D)
 
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