Brett Favre’s lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss the former quarterback in the Mississippi lawsuit involving a misuse of state welfare funds, the Associated Press reports. Favre is one of over three dozen people named in a Mississippi Department of Human Services lawsuit alleging $20 million of the state’s welfare money was misspent.
“It is apparent that MDHS has sued Favre, a Mississippi and national celebrity, to try to deflect responsibility for its own egregious wrongdoing in allowing tens of millions of dollars of its public funds to be misspent — funds for which MDHS itself admits it was ‘exclusively responsible,’” Farve’s lawyers said in the filing.
Anna Wolfe of Mississippi Today reported in September that Favre, along with nonprofit founder Nancy New and former welfare agency director John Davis, used $5 million of state funds to help the University of Southern Mississippi build a new volleyball stadium, while also lobbying for money to build a new indoor football facility. According to Wolfe, at least $77 million was misspent in this case.
