Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre denied the $1.1 million in welfare money he received from Mississippi was for speaking engagements he didn’t actually attend. Favre’s dispute of a Mississippi state auditor’s report came in an interview Friday on ESPN Wisconsin’s “Wilde & Tausch” show. He said he was being paid for a role in public service announcements and advertisements that ran for years in Mississippi. “For [the auditor] to say I took $1.1 million and didn’t show up for speaking engagements is absolutely 100 percent not true.”Favre insisted the money had nothing to do with scheduled speaking engagements. Favre Enterprises was paid $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018 for speeches at three events, according to the audit.

Source: Fox News May 11, 2020 14:26 UTC