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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“According to a state audit, Mississippi allowed tens of millions of dollars in federal anti-poverty funds to be used in ways that did little or nothing to help the poor.

Monday’s audit comes after the arrest in February of John Davis, the former director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, the agency that distributes the federal welfare block grants. Mr. Davis is accused of taking part in a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme.
Five other people were charged in the apparent scheme, including Nancy New, a politically connected figure who was the executive director of the Mississippi Community Education Center, one of the two nonprofit groups mentioned in the report. All have pleaded not guilty.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/mississippi-department-human-services.html#click=https://t.co/JFSRGEz8TO[/quote]

Jackson Clarion-Ledger has more details
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/04/ms-welfare-scandal-audit-94-m-questionable-spending/3076949001/

Mississippi's Republican DHS Director gave millions in federal welfare dollars to two nonprofits that passed money around to family, friends, and cronies with no oversight:

* The two nonprofits improperly used welfare money to hire lobbyists and for advertising, promotional, and branding campaigns
* MCEC gave contracts to, and hired, family members of (DHS Director) Davis. The payments and salaries to his nephew and brother-in-law totaled more than $1 million. 
* Brett Favre's company, Favre Enterprises, was paid $1.1 million by MCEC over two installments for appearances, promotions, autographs and speaking engagements by the former star quarterback from Mississippi; auditors determined that Favre "did not speak nor was he present for those events." 
* Both nonprofits gave welfare money to a trio of wrestlers, Ted DiBiase, Ted DiBiase, Jr., and Brett DiBiase — some for work never performed, some for "unreasonable" travel costs. 
* MCEC paid Victory Sports Foundation with welfare money to run fitness programs. Mississippi legislators, officials and staffers participated in some of them, free of charge. 
* MCEC bought three cars with welfare money, each worth more than $50,000, for MCEC Director Nancy New and her two sons. 
* Salaries, cellphones and other expenses were also paid using welfare money. 
* MCEC used welfare money for sports-related purposes, including sponsoring a college baseball tournament and other NCAA events. 
* MCEC moved $6 million in welfare money to a private school and organization run by New, and bought supplies for the school. 
* New and her son invested welfare money in a Florida medical company, Prevacus, in exchange for the company conducting "clinical trials of the new medicine on children in Mississippi." 
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