Brett Favre, who was named in a Mississippi state audit for accepting $1.1 million for appearances he didn’t even make, has agreed to repay the money according to State Auditor Shad White. Favre was named in an audit that detailed an alleged multimillion-dollar welfare fraud scheme.
Favre, the legendary Hall of Fame quarterback from Mississippi, was named by Mississippi’s Department of Human Services as having received $1.1 million for appearances that he allegedly didn’t make by the federal government’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, according to reports by the Mississippi Clarion Ledger and Associated Press.
“Today my office has received $500,000 from Brett Favre in repayment for TANF money he was paid through MCEC and a commitment to repay the remainder in installments over the next few months,” White said in a statement, via the Sun Herald.
“I want to applaud Mr. Favre for his good faith effort to make this right and make the taxpayers and TANF families whole. To date, we have seen no records indicating Mr. Favre knew that TANF was the program that served as the source of the money he was paid.”
