JACKSON, Miss. (WTAQ-WRN) — Mississippi’s highest court won’t stop state officials from suing former Packers Quarterback Brett Favre over misspent welfare funds.
Three justices denied an appeal from Favre, who claims that the state Department of Human Services’ lawsuit has no merit and that he wasn’t involved in a scheme that siphoned millions of dollars from welfare funds to well connected residents.
But a former director at Mississippi DHS and several other people have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the case.
The state is trying to recover millions of dollars, some of which was spent on a sports facility for Favre’s alma mater or a drug company he was investing in.
