Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre is facing an investigation as part of a civil case brought by the Mississippi Department of Human Services over millions of dollars in misallocated welfare funds. And as part of that process, one allegation against the former quarterback was recently revealed.
According to documents obtained by Front Office Sports this week, former University of Southern Mississippi president Rodney Bennett claimed that Brett Favre agreed to personally pay fun a $5 million construction project for a new volleyball arena at the university.
“My understanding, from my early January [2017] meeting with Brett was that Brett was going to pay, personally, for whatever the cost of the facility was,” Bennett testified during his October 2023 deposition, according to Front Office Sports. “… The agreement was, between Brett and me in my office, that he would pay for the entire amount, in an effort to have that facility able to move along the continuum faster than it would if it were a state capital project.”
Instead, that project received $5 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds, which is an impermissible use of money that is supposed to be used to help the state’s impoverished individuals.
Favre has not been charged criminally and has long denied all wrongdoing in the case.
