While NFL legend Brett Favre claims that he had no idea the millions of dollars he requested to help fund a volleyball stadium, build a football facility, fund his dubious “concussion cream” venture, and compensate him for public appearances, text messages that he sent to the then-Mississippi governor Phil Bryant and others seem to imply that he was well aware of the money’s intended purpose, to help the state’s poorest citizens.
Friday, Bryant asked a judge to throw out a subpoena against him that includes those texts.
According to Mississippi Today, Bryant argued that “his personal text messages are protected under executive privilege and that the subpoena should either be thrown out or that any records he provides be placed under a protective order.”
One of the defendants in the civil case surrounding the welfare scandal filed a subpoena in October for Bryant’s records, which included his texts with Favre about Prevacus, a concussion drug company that received $2 million in stolen welfare funds.
Per Mississippi Today, state law has no specific language around executive privilege protections for the governor. However, other states have adopted such protections through their courts.
Despite the ongoing legal issues and the ever-increasing list of financial scandals that he’s been accused of, no charges have been filed against Favre as of yet. The university that built a volleyball stadium with money that Favre procured from the welfare fund has also refused to return that money as of yet.
