Brett Favre has been a busy man this month.
Favre’s lawyers filed papers Friday again asking a Mississippi judge to dismiss the retired NFL quarterback from a lawsuit that demands repayment of millions of dollars of welfare money intended to help some of the poorest people in the U.S.
“It is apparent that MDHS has sued Favre, a Mississippi and national celebrity, to try to deflect responsibility for its own egregious wrongdoing in allowing tens of millions of dollars of its public funds to be misspent — funds for which MDHS itself admits it was ‘exclusively responsible,'” Favre’s lawyers said in the filing.
The MDHS lawsuit states that the hall of fame QB supported a $5 million investment for a volleyball arena at Southern Miss, his daughter’s university.
Aside from this news, Favre has also made major headlines by suing Shannon Sharpe and Pat McAfee for “defamatory allegations” made over his alleged involvement in the Mississippi welfare scandal.
On his podcast Friday, McAfee made it clear that he is ready to have his day in court. He also revealed he received a “warning shot” from Favre’s lawyers before it was filed, in a letter that demanded he erase every video he had recorded that included mentions of Favre and the alleged misspending of welfare money. They also demanded a public apology.
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“I looked at that. I said, ‘That is hilarious.’ Of course we’re not doing that,” McAfee said on “The Pat McAfee Show.”
Sharpe has been quiet about the lawsuit thus far.
