A new volleyball center at the University of Southern Mississippi was built thanks to the help of Phil Bryant, who was the former governor of Mississippi and a fan of the Packers. There is a time and a place for this.
According to a report by Mississippi Today, former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant helped a former football player get welfare funds to build a volleyball center.
The text messages were reviewed by the news organization to see if they were related to the lawsuit. Nancy New has already been sentenced to 13 years in prison for her role in the welfare scheme. The Mississippi Community Education Center was created to spend tens of millions of federal welfare funds to help the state.
The largest case of public fraud in Mississippi's history was found by state auditors.
At least $5 million in welfare funds should be diverted to build a volleyball stadium at Southern Miss according to text messages. Some of the text messages were sent when his daughter was a volleyball player at Southern Miss.
The media can find out where the money came from if you pay me. The man asked new things in 2017:
She circled back to him the next day after she told him that she never had that information publicized.
Just got off the phone with Phil. We are on board with him. We will complete this task! The new told the old one.
Bryant asked New if they could help him with his project after finishing his meeting with Favre.
The attorney for the former quarterback denied that he received welfare funds.
"He has been honorable throughout this whole thing."
In 2020, he told the outlet that he had not talked to Bryant about the volleyball stadium.
Bryant, who left office in January 2020, has long denied helping direct welfare funds to the stadium project, and he did not address the texts in a statement to Mississippi Today.
The volleyball stadium is not part of the lawsuit. The two men have not been charged with a crime.
He paid $600,000 back to the state of Mississippi, an amount he had been paid for speeches he didn't give. In order to promote a state poverty-fighting initiative, Favre was commissioned in the last two years. The state auditor's office said that he initially gave back half a million dollars, but later asked him to repay the rest.
In May of this year, the Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit against the quarterback because he had not paid back interest on the money.
Text messages obtained by Mississippi Today show that the $1.1 million deal with the state was used to fund the volleyball stadium.
The report was contributed to by the news agency.
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