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Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre is the most important star within the Mississippi welfare scheme through which he and different state officers, together with the state’s former Division of Human Companies Director John Davis and former Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, are beneath investigation for funneling $77 million price of welfare funds to their very own private initiatives—none of which had something to do with the place the funds wanted to go. However now a former WWE wrestler additionally implicated within the scheme is dropping a bomb.
Mississippi At present reporter Anna Wolfe, who has been breaking information about this story because it started, joined the newest episode of The New Irregular podcast to elucidate how the scandal broke, the way it has developed, and likewise, a brand new twist.
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Former WWE wrestler Ted “Teddy” DiBiase Jr. alleges that he witnessed one of many foremost officers on this case redirecting welfare funds away from a nonprofit that wanted it, as a result of “the nonprofit director was a supporter of the Democratic candidate for governor that yr,” Wolfe explains to a mind-blown Andy Levy, co-host of the present.
“Now this story doesn’t need to do with Brett Favre, proper? And so possibly it’s not gonna make the nationwide airwaves, however that allegation is an allegation of a sitting governor directing how taxpayer funds will likely be spent with a purpose to punish a political opponent. That’s an enormous deal,” she provides.
However don’t fear, Wolfe nonetheless shares on the present an entire lot extra about Favre’s function on this, together with how a lot of the cash he’s paid again to date and the way way more the feds suppose they’ll be capable to get from him.
Plus! Andy and visitor co-host Danielle Moodie, who additionally co-hosts the Democracy-ish podcast, hilariously unpack the previous couple of days’ political information, together with the “terrifying” and fascist lady who received Italy’s election and their joint hope that New York AG Letitia James will lastly be capable to “burst” Donald Trump’s billionaire bubble.
“It’s form of a drip, drip, drip water torture sort of factor,” she jokes. “I really feel just like the one that's constantly being waterboarded by the Trumps, like drown me already.”
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