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<\/figure>\n If there have been any justice on the planet, NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre would have been canceled way back, after two therapeutic massage therapists for the NY Jets sued him again in 2011<\/a><\/span>, claiming they misplaced their jobs on account of a crude textual content message Favre despatched to one of many girls. Favre denied the allegations and the lawsuit was finally settled. But it sounds awfully acquainted to a textual content Favre allegedly despatched to a different unsuspecting Jets\u2019 worker. The one everybody is aware of about.<\/a><\/span> (This is the place we inform you that the sufferer in that unwholesome incident had by no means even MET Breff Favre earlier than he \u2014allegedly \u2014 texted her.) But as we at all times say, professional athletes can do something to girls in the event that they\u2019re ok on the sector. Favre has denied any wrongdoing, each then<\/a><\/span> and now<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n Alas, Brett Favre was not canceled. In truth, he was rolled out not solely as an elder statesman of the sport by the NFL, however as a star spokesman for corporations like Copper Fit, Sensodyne, Wrangler, and Hyundai. And it\u2019s due to that adulation regardless of alleged horrible habits that Brett Favre was in any place to do what he\u2019s accused of doing down in Mississippi.<\/p>\n Part of Favre\u2019s \u201caw shucks\u201d small-town boy picture was his attachment to his house state of Mississippi, the place he was born, performed his faculty ball, and at present resides. Brett Favre ain\u2019t no sissy left coast elitist! He\u2019s an excellent ole boy from down Mississippi, goll darn it!<\/p>\n That common man schtick and love of his house state is what makes Favre\u2019s alleged function in diverting welfare cash<\/a><\/span> from the needy in Mississippi, the poorest state within the Union<\/a><\/span> by a number of totally different metrics, so galling. Here\u2019s what our Eric Blum needed to say <\/a><\/span>concerning the allegations in opposition to Favre again in November: <\/p>\n As if Brett Favre\u2019s blunders<\/a><\/span> in (allegedly) diverting $5 million of Mississippi\u2019s federal welfare cash to construct a brand new volleyball facility at Southern Miss wasn\u2019t loopy sufficient, two concussion drug corporations he backed which can be additionally entangled within the scandal overstated the recognized effectiveness of their medication to lift cash, in response to an ESPN report.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Favre, who was paid over $138 million in his NFL profession, was additionally funneled $1.1 million<\/a><\/span> to advertise a state initiative, a portion of the $77 million in misspent welfare funds, for speeches that he by no means delivered. Those funds had been reportedly a backchannel to his volleyball area undertaking. An audit launched in 2020 mentioned that New\u2019s Mississippi Community Education Center paid Favre Enterprises $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018 to make speeches for a minimum of three occasions. In 2020, Favre was ordered to repay the funds, however nonetheless owes almost $228,000 in curiosity.<\/p>\n Favre has mentioned he was unaware the funds directed to him for his speeches had been welfare-designated funds.<\/p>\n\n