Court Docs: Allege Brett Favre Knew Mississippi Funds Transfer was ‘Illegal’
A filing by Mississippi officials claims Brett Favre admitted in text messages that he knew Welfare fund transfers were illegal.
A filing by Mississippi officials claims Brett Favre admitted in text messages that he knew Welfare fund transfers were illegal.
It is alleged Brett Favre sought $1.5 million from a Miss. welfare agency for an indoor football practice facility.
A recent court filing states that NFL legend and Hall of Famer Brett Favre consistently sought funding for a new volleyball stadium at Southern Miss even after he was told that it could be illegal.
The recent plea deal by former Mississippi welfare director John Davis, who has agreed to cooperate with investigators, is the latest big victory for prosecutors in the Magnolia State. And it could possibly bring them one step closer to charging NFL legend Brett Favre.
Text messages from ex-Miss. Gov. Phil Bryant seem to reveal he helped Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre secure state welfare funds.
NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre was questioned by the FBI as a part of their investigation into a welfare fraud scandal in Mississippi, according to a report.
A lawsuit allegs that Governor Phil Bryant illegally redirected $1.1 million in state welfare money to NFL legend Brett Favre.
Pro-life leaders expressed relief the Supreme Court has finally agreed to hear a significant challenge to its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.
The Mississippi state Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would prohibit abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually at the sixth or seventh week of pregnancy.
Democrats in Mississippi are hoping to pull off an upset in the November 29 Senate runoff election between GOP nominee Sen. Cyndy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and Democrat nominee former Rep. Mike Espy (D-MS).
Multiple states along the Gulf Coast declared a state of emergency in anticipation of Tropical Storm Gordon, which is expected to strengthen and potentially hit the region as a hurricane Tuesday night.
“Our first duty is to our citizens, including those who have taken the wrong path but are seeking redemption and a new beginning,” Trump said.
A previous leader of the Democratic party confirmed on Thursday that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.
President Trump had dinner with five Republican governors at the White House Monday to discuss border security and tackling illegal immigration.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant appointed recent Democrat turned Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday to replace retiring U.S. Senator Thad Cochran over the Republican candidate in the race to replace him.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a bill into law making his state the first in the nation to ban abortions past 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Chris McDaniel, a candidate to replace retiring Sen. Thad Cochran, urged Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant during the weekend edition of Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM to prevent a Republican “bloodbath” and refrain from appointing a Mitch McConnell-approved candidate to the seat.
In a now-deleted article at NBC News, Jonathan Allen and Keri Geiger wrote that Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon is planning primary challenges to both of Mississippi’s incumbent establishment Republican senators.
Brad White, Chief of Staff for Thad Cochran (R-MS), said that the senator “was provided [a wheelchair] at the Capitol in an abundance of caution, because he is recovering and because he has to go so far to get from place to place there.”
Senator Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) continued absences from Washington have reignited long-standing concerns over his physical health — and set up the possibility that both seats in the United States Senate from Mississippi, currently held by establishment Republican allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), could be up for grabs in 2018.
Eight individuals were killed–including a deputy sheriff–in a house-to-house rampage in Mississippi on Saturday night.
The Texas Attorney General is leading a coalition of 15 states defending President Donald Trump’s revised immigration order of March 6.
The left was gung-ho for gun control in 2016, but in the process of pushing it they got eight things pitifully wrong and suffered huge losses.
The only Planned Parenthood clinic in Hattiesburg does not perform abortions, and has taken less than $1,000 in Medicaid funding in each of the past five years. However, Mississippi Senate Medicaid Committee chairman Brice Wiggins (R) said after the state Senate voted to approve the defunding measure, “You are the company you keep and by Mississippi reimbursing Planned Parenthood through Medicaid, we are keeping that company.”
Mississippi-born rapper Genesis Be wrapped herself in a Confederate flag, hung a noose around her neck and ordered fans to rip up a Confederate flag during a recent performance to protest Gov. Phil Bryant’s decision to designate the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month.
The executive vice president of Planned Parenthood says a new Mississippi law banning dismemberment abortion in which an unborn baby is extracted one piece at a time from his or her mother’s womb is an “attack on women’s health care.”
On April 15 Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant (R) signed permitless carry legislation into law.
Sharon Stone has canceled plans to shoot a short film in Mississippi to protest the state’s recent passage of its “anti-LGBT” religious liberty bill.
The Mississippi House concurred with the Senate by passing legislation on Tuesday to abolish the requirement for a concealed carry permit in the state.
Texas Pastors who where hit with subpoenas during their fight against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, dubbed “HERO” by the city’s first openly gay mayor, sent a letter to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant thanking him for signing a religious liberty
On Tuesday, Republicans in Idaho, Hawaii, Michigan, and Mississippi will make their pick for the Republican nomination. According to recent polling, Donald Trump has a clear edge in these states. It is very possible, though, that a replay of Super
Just ahead of the Mississippi primary, Republican Governor Phil Bryant announced his endorsement of Texas Senator Ted Cruz for the GOP nomination for president.
On February 29 the Mississippi House passed a measure barring enforcement of new federal gun controls in the state and Governor Phil Bryant (R) quickly urged the Senate to follow suit.
Governor Phil Bryant declared April to be Confederate Heritage Month, saying he hopes to encourage “reflection” on his state’s history.
The Louisiana Clerks of Court Association advised clerks not to issue licenses for 25 days, during which time the Supreme Court could be petitioned for a rehearing. Same-sex marriages are also on hold in the state of Mississippi where Democrat attorney general Jim Hood said the Supreme Court’s decision would not go into effect in his state until the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals lifts a stay on its ruling from last year in which it struck down the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
On Sunday morning Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny Dupree (D) suggested Mississippi’s allowance of open carry without a permit contributed to the deaths of Officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate on May 10.
GOP establishment governors wedded to both Chamber of Commerce dictates and Obama administration federal incentives are signing legislation that promises to keep much of the Common Core standards and their associated testing in place.
On March 29, the Mississippi Senate passed legislation containing a slew of crucial pro-gun proposals, one of which shields Mississippians from prosecution if the ATF or another federal agency revisits and institutes an AR-15 ammo ban in the future. The