Former professional football quarterback Brett Favre will remain on a civil lawsuit seeking the recovery of money swindled from the state of Mississippi’s welfare fund that went into the Hall of Famer’s pocket or into a renovated volleyball arena where his daughter started college, the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson reports.
Favre got the state to spend around $5 million from the state Temporary Assistance to Needy Families fund to pay for a new volleyball arena at the University of Southern Mississippi, where his daughter, a college volleyball player, enrolled; Favre’s daughter, Breleigh, transferred to Louisiana State for her senior year. Favre was also paid more than $1 million from the same fund to make motivational speeches; there’s no record of Favre making a speech as contracted by the state.