What followed was the biggest public fraud case in state history, according to the state auditor’s office. New, a friend of Bryant’s wife Deborah, ran a nonprofit that was in charge of spending tens of millions of flexible federal welfare dollars outside of public view.
Favre received most of the credit for raising funds to construct the facility.īryant has for years denied any close involvement in the steering of welfare funds to the volleyball stadium, though plans for the project even included naming the building after him, one text shows. The newly released texts, filed Monday by an attorney representing Nancy New’s nonprofit, show that Bryant, Favre, New, Davis and others worked together to channel at least $5 million of the state’s welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at University of Southern Mississippi, where Favre’s daughter played the sport. But I will call Nancy and see what it will take,” according to the filing and a text Favre forwarded to New. When Favre asked Bryant how the new agency director might affect their plans to fund the volleyball stadium, Bryant assured him, “I will handle that… long story but had to make a change. We should meet soon to see how I can make sure we keep your projects on course.” “Just left Brett Favre,” Bryant texted nonprofit founder Nancy New in July of 2019, within weeks of Davis’ departure. The texts show that the then-governor even guided Favre on how to write a funding proposal so that it could be accepted by the Mississippi Department of Human Services – even after Bryant ousted the former welfare agency director John Davis for suspected fraud. Phil Bryant pushed to make NFL legend Brett Favre’s volleyball idea a reality. Text messages entered Monday into the state’s ongoing civil lawsuit over the welfare scandal reveal that former Gov.
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