Favre repays $600K in Mississippi welfare case, auditor says

The Mississippi auditor says retired NFL player Brett Favre has repaid the welfare money he accepted for scheduled speeches where he didn’t show up.

Auditor Shad White says Favre paid $600,000 this week.

The former Green Bay Packers quarterback still owes $228,000 in interest. White says the attorney general could sue Favre if that’s not paid by mid-November.

Favre received $1.1 million and repaid the first $500,000 in May 2020. He said he did not know the money came from welfare funds.

Favre is not facing criminal charges. A former Mississippi Department of Human Services director and others are charged in one of the state’s largest embezzlement cases.