The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Mississippi makes decision on volleyball stadium in Brett Favre scandal

Episode Date: November 8, 2022

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Now a couple of months ago I gave the biggest hee-haw to former governor Of Mississippi, Phil Bryant And Brett Favre because at the time, never-before-seen text messages showed that Phil Bryant was trying to shepherd a proposal to use welfare funds on the construction of a new volleyball stadium for retired NFL player Brett Favre. A project prosecutors have called a scheme to defraud the government. You know why they called it that? Because it is!

Now, this is just the center piece in a bigger uh criminal scandal where prominent officials misspent or stole millions in welfare funds intended for the poor and disenfranchised residents of mississippi a state that has the highest rate of poverty in america okay if you didn't know the then governor even guided brett fob on how to write a funding proposal so that it could be accepted by the mississippi department of human services and this is after governor bryant fired former welfare on how to write a funding proposal so that it could be accepted by the Mississippi Department of Human Services. And this is after Governor Bryant fired former Welfare Agency Director John Davis for suspected fraud. You get rid of the Welfare Agency Director for suspected fraud

only to turn around and commit fraud yourself. The text messages show that Governor Bryant, Brett Favre, and others worked together to channel at least $5 million of the state's welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at the University of Southern Mississippi, where Brett Favre's daughter played the sport. Now, the messages also showed that Favre received a separate $1.1 million welfare contract to promote the program. Well, he got $1.1 million of the welfare money to promote the program. He was supposed to give some speeches that he never made. Now, according to reports, Favre has since paid back the $1.1 million. He was paid for speeches and appearances. He did that back in 2001, but there's still a sticking point over about $228,000 in interest.

That is still outstanding. And I don't know if he will be facing any criminal charges, but he's lost a lot of business ventures and endorsement deals. Odyssey Health and Halo are two of the endorsement deals he lost. And six people have been charged with wrongdoing and five have pled guilty. The people are John Davis, Nancy New, Zach New and McGrew, Brett DiBiase, and the Mississippi Department of Human Services brought a civil lawsuit against more than 35 people and entities, including Brett Favre and the Mississippi Community Education Center, to recover

some of that money. I'm just getting y'all up to speed before I tell you why the University of Mississippi is getting the biggest hee-haw today, because I see the narrative. Okay, this talking point that everyone, you know, everybody's on Kyrie, but nobody's talking about what's going on with Brett Favre. It's because we're not talking about Brett Favre.

Okay, at what point will y'all realize that traditional media is more often than not reacting to what everybody is talking about online? So if they see y'all talking and debating about Kyrie Irving online, that's what they take to TV and everywhere else because all the information you want on the Brett Favre Mississippi scandal is available. I gave them donkey today a few months ago. Did you know Brett Favre paid the $1.1 million back? Did you know Brett Favre lost business ventures

and endorsement deals? Did you know six people have faced criminal charges and five pled guilty? Did you know? Huh? Well, if you know, spread the word. Now, why is the University of Mississippi getting the biggest hee-haw today? Because if you got $5 million, money intended for the state's poorest, all right, and that money was used to build a volleyball stadium,

you would think the University of Mississippi would want to figure out how to return the $5 million in welfare funds. You would think, right? But the school has refused to do so. Instead, they offered this past week to allow, listen to what I'm about to tell you, to allow the welfare department to utilize space on campus to provide programming to the underserved community. Now, that sounds like some BS is because it is. All right. The Department of Human Services released a statement saying that kind of arrangement would be against the federal laws that govern the funds used. Let me read you some technical jargon. As noted in prior audits, use of temporary assistance for needy families funds for the construction of brick and mortar building projects have never been authorized by law in the Mississippi Department of Human Services cannot accept the University of Mississippi's offer to utilize the building constructed with temporary assistance for needy families in lieu of repayment of the funds because we believe it to be a continued violation of the law.

End quote. Imagine somebody taking money that's intended for you and then offering you a crumb of it. The money was literally for the poor and needy. Y'all used it for a volleyball stadium and got the nerve to offer to utilize the space. Utilize the space? Nah, bro. Run me my check, okay? And the volleyball stadium is not included in the Department of Health and Human Services civil lawsuit against 38 individuals or organizations in an attempt to get back the $24 million in misappropriated welfare funds.

But the key word is for now because as far as i'm concerned everyone is on bs and to everyone involved in mississippi ain't no good gonna come to you until you do right by the poor and needy in mississippi i'm pointing my silly fingers at you right now and i want you to remember proverbs 22 22 do not exploit the poor because they are poor or do you want to hear from the new living translation don't rob the poor just because you can God told me to tell y'all that are y'all gonna find out the hard way please let Remy Ma give the University of Mississippi the biggest hee-haw he Hee-haw, hee-haw. You stupid mother******, you dumb. Can you imagine?

You get $5 million, $5 million that's supposed to go to the poor and needy, $5 million in welfare funds. You build this volleyball stadium, and instead of coming up with a plan to give the money back, you offer to utilize your space to provide programming to the underserved community that's no that's not how that should work no all right donkey of the day is brought to you by the law office of michael s laminsoff don't be a donkey dial pound 250 on your cell and say the bull if you've been hurt in a construction accident that's pound 250 from your cell and say the bull. We'll be right back. willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zaka Stan.

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