The Green Bay villain turned Minnesota hero Brett Favre has been making headlines in the past week over an alleged scandal that he may have been a part of. Brett Favre made a career in the NFL, and is mostly known for playing for the Green Bay Packers. He also won Super Bowl XXXI with the Packers. After his career with the Packers, he jumped from the New York Jets to the Minnesota Vikings, where he played two great seasons for the Vikings, and even taking them to the NFC Championship in the 2009 season. The Vikings ultimately lost the NFC Championship after the great “bountygate” scandal. However in this case, Brett Favre has found himself on the other side of a scandal.

Earlier this week, Brett Favre has made the headlines after being involved in what the mass media is titling the “Mississippi Welfare Scandal.” Favre and a handful of others have been accused of taking funds from a welfare fund and using it for anything but helping families in need in Mississippi. According to Yahoo news, Favre and a few others leading the fund took millions of dollars in the fund and used it for motivational speaking lectures that were never given in the first place, as well as other training camps in Mississippi. 

It only gets worse from this point. Among everyone who is involved in this scandal, Favre happened to have taken the most money from this fund in order to put an estimated 8 million dollars to help build a volleyball stadium at his own alma mater, University of Southern Mississippi. 

The biggest question to this situation is why Brett Favre did not use his own money. He made well over 100 million dollars alone while playing in the National Football League. This is not even counting what he has made from advertising and sponsorships. 

Money from the welfare funds was supposed to be intended to be given to single mothers in Mississippi. One University of Minnesota student had to say “My first reaction was there are thousands of people in Jackson, Mississippi without water, yet we have valuable money and resources going to stuff like this. It is honestly disgraceful.” It is really shameful to see a hero that a lot of people in Minnesota and Green Bay looked up to commit an act like this. 

This is the biggest case of public corruption that the state of Mississippi has ever seen. Another important thing to know is that a former Trump lawyer during his presidency will represent Brett Favre in this case. Eric Herschmann was a senior advisor to Trump, and believes he has evidence in Favre’s communications that he should not be indicted for these accused crimes. It is also important to note that Herschmann was one of Trump’s lawyers during his first impeachment trial. Favre endorsed Trump in 2020 on Twitter.

While these allegations are so very serious, there have also been other cases of people and organizations doing the same exact thing Favre did. Just last month, there was a similar scandal in Minnesota regarding Feeding Our Future. This was first discovered in 2020 where 250 million dollars of funds were misused, and spent on luxurious items. 

Scandals are detrimental to the United States of America, as well as the entire world. It not only ruins the sole purpose of the fundraiser and fund in the first place, but people also are losing trust when it comes to donating to organizations and good causes. This not only has an affect on the issues that require these funds, but the people that were also going to be benefitted from these.