Brett Favre: 'I did not know' Miss. funds were earmarked for welfare
Brett Favre responded to reports that he was involved in a widespread welfare fraud scheme in his home state of Mississippi.
Favre told Fox News Digital that he had no knowledge that any funds he requested for a volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi were being diverted from welfare causes for the state's poorest residents.
"I have been unjustly smeared in the media," Favre said in the statement.