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Mississippi welfare funds scandal. In February 2020, the office of the Mississippi State Auditor arrested six people it accused of mishandling federal funds disbursed by the Mississippi Department of Human Services, including the department's former director. In May, the auditor's office released a report identifying $94 million in questionable ...
Updated July 3, 2024 at 8:19 AM. When Anna Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her dogged reporting on Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal, she had no inkling she was soon going to have to contend ...
A local news outlet that helped expose a wide-reaching public corruption scandal has filed its first defense against a defamation lawsuit brought by former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, with the ...
The Mississippi governor is being asked to turn over TANF receipts to the U.S. House Ways and Means ... according to Fitch, was prompted by White writing a book detailing the welfare scandal, in ...
In the filing, Bryant requested all documents and communications Anna Wolfe had access to during the writing of her series on the Mississippi welfare scandal. [19] As of July 2024, Mississippi Today had requested the Mississippi Supreme Court to overturn a court order requiring it to turn over Wolfe's welfare scandal documents and the names of ...
Phil Bryant. Dewey Phillip Bryant (born December 9, 1954) is an American politician who served as the 64th governor of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020. [1][2] A member of the Republican Party, he was the 31st lieutenant governor of Mississippi from 2008 to 2012 and 40th state auditor of Mississippi from 1996 to 2008.
As Brett Favre became ensnared in media attention for his connection to Mississippi's sprawling welfare scandal, Gov. Tate Reeves' brother suggested the state official investigating the case ...
Jonathan Tate Reeves (born June 5, 1974) is an American politician serving since 2020 as the 65th governor of Mississippi. A member of the Republican Party, Reeves served as the 32nd lieutenant governor of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020 and as the 53rd Mississippi State Treasurer from 2004 to 2012. Born in Florence, Mississippi, Reeves graduated ...