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NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre is scheduled to be deposed in a Mississippi lawsuit that centers on allegations of misuse of state welfare funds, according to court documents. Favre has been sued along with more than 20 other entities after Mississippi's state auditor said more than $70 million in TANF welfare funds were misused for reasons that had nothing to with needy families. Favre is scheduled to be deposed the morning of Oct. 26, according to a filing Monday in state civil court.
Federal prosecutors said he and others who were charged misused federal funds from TANF and the Emergency Food Assistance Program for their own use. Both are programs for low-income Mississippians. Davis had his department send funds to two nonprofit organizations, and he then directed them to award contracts for services that were never provided, according to the Justice Department.
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