The former director of a Mississippi nonprofit organization pleaded guilty this week in federal court to stealing government funds intended to help needy families in one of the poorest states in the U.S., court documents show.
last September to state and federal charges tied to misspending money through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. He has not yet been sentenced.
The Mississippi Department of Human Services last year filed a civil lawsuit to try to recover the millions of dollars of misspent welfare money. Webb and the Family Resource Center of North Mississippi are among those being sued. Favre has not faced criminal charges but is one of more than three dozen defendants in the civil lawsuit.
Nancy New and Zachary New, a mother and son who ran another nonprofit organization and an education company,in April 2022 to state charges of misusing welfare money, including on lavish gifts such as first-class airfare for Davis.
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