A couple days after it surfaced that Brett Favre’s company was paid $1.1M for speeches the Hall-of-Fame quarterback never made, he said he will pay the money back to the state of Mississippi.
State Auditor Shad White told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger Favre paid his office $500,000 Wednesday and he would “repay the remainder in installments over the next few months.”
The auditor said the money will be returned to the Mississippi Department of Human Services for welfare-related expenditures.
“I want to applaud Mr. Favre for his good faith effort to make this right and make the taxpayers and TANF families whole,” White said in a statement. “To date, we have seen no records indicating Mr. Favre knew that TANF was the program that served as the source of the money he was paid.”
Favre tweeted about the incident.
