According to text messages in a court filing obtained by Mississippi Today, former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant helped Brett Favre obtain welfare funds in order to help build a new volleyball center at the University of Southern Mississippi.
"If you were to pay me is there anyway the media can find out where it came from and how much?" Favre asked New in 2017.
"Wow, just got off the phone with Phil Bryant! He is on board with us! We will get this done!" New told Favre. Favre's attorney, Bud Holmes, denied to Mississippi Today that the former quarterback knew he received welfare funds.Favre had told the outlet in 2020 that he had not discussed the volleyball stadium project with Bryant.
Mississippi Today reported that the volleyball stadium is not part of the state's civil lawsuit. Favre and Bryant have not been criminally charged.
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