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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to a campaign event at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump will campaign in Wisconsin with Brett Favre, who’s linked to a Mississippi welfare scandal

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre appears before the House Committee on Ways and Means on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE **

Favre tries to expand defamation lawsuit against Mississippi auditor over welfare spending

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre appears before the House Committee on Ways and Means on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Favre’s Parkinson’s diagnosis came after right arm struggles

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Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre appears before the House Committee on Ways and Means on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre reveals he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Steve Megargee - Associated Press

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre participates in a question and answer session at a fundraiser for Willowood Developmental Center, a facility that provides training and assistance for special needs students, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre to appear before House panel looking at welfare misspending

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

FILE - Former NFL football quarterback Brett Favre speaks with reporters prior to his induction to the Mississippi Hall of Fame, Aug. 1, 2015, in Jackson, Miss. Lawyers for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will ask a federal appeals court Tuesday, July 9, 2024, to revive a defamation lawsuit Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football of Fame member, tight end Shannon Sharpe, amid the backdrop of a Mississippi welfare scandal. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Favre asks appeals court to reinstate his defamation lawsuit against Sharpe

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

Former NFL football quarterback Brett Favre speaks with reporters prior to his induction to the Mississippi Hall of Fame, Aug. 1, 2015, in Jackson, Miss. On Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, a federal judge dismissed Favre’s defamation lawsuit against fellow retired NFL player Shannon Sharpe. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Judge dismisses Brett Favre defamation suit, saying Shannon Sharpe used hyperbole over welfare money

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

FILE - Republican Gov. Tate Reeves speaks in Bolton, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. As Brett Favre became ensnared in media attention for his connection to Mississippi's sprawling welfare scandal, Reeves' brother suggested the state official investigating the case praise the retired NFL quarterback, according to screen shots of text messages released Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, by Reeves' re-election campaign. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi governor’s brother suggested that auditor praise Brett Favre during welfare scandal

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

FILE - Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks with reporters prior to his induction to the Mississippi Hall of Fame in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 1, 2015. The Mississippi Supreme Court said Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, that it will not remove Favre as a defendant in a civil lawsuit that seeks to recover millions of dollars of misspent welfare money meant to help some of the poorest people in the United States. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi Supreme Court won’t remove Favre from lawsuit over misspent welfare money

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, center, stands on the sideline during the first half of the team's Hall of Fame NFL football preseason game against the Cleveland Browns, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023, in Canton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

They’re not the same old Jets with Aaron Rodgers on board

By Rob Maaddi - Associated Press

Former Indianapolis Colts player Pat McAfee announces the Colts' third round pick at the NFL football draft, April 26, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is dismissing his lawsuit against McAfee after McAfee publicly apologized for his previous on-air statements that Favre had been “stealing from poor people in Mississippi” in a welfare misspending case. Favre and McAfee both announced the settlement Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan) **FILE**

Favre ends lawsuit after McAfee apologizes over ‘stealing from poor’ remark

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Gov. Phil Bryant ponders a response to a question regarding his legacy following a life of public service, while sitting in his Jackson, Miss., Capitol office, on Jan. 8, 2020. The former governor said Wednesday, May 3, 2023, that he will release all of his text messages related to a welfare fraud investigation — including money spent on building a university volleyball arena, a project backed by retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre and others with connections to Bryant. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi ex-governor releases texts with Brett Favre and others in welfare fraud investigation

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks to the media in Jackson, Miss., Oct. 17, 2018. Favre will not be dismissed from a lawsuit that seeks to recover millions of dollars of misspent welfare money that was supposed to help some of the neediest people in the United States, a Mississippi judge ruled Monday, April 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) **FILE**

Judge rules Favre must remain in Mississippi welfare lawsuit

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks with reporters prior to his induction to the Mississippi Hall of Fame in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 1, 2015. The civil lawsuit against Favre that seeks to recover misspent welfare money in Mississippi’s largest-ever public corruption case should be dismissed because the Mississippi Department of Human Services lacks evidence and is attempting to deflect from its own culpability, attorneys for Favre argue in new a court filing filed on Monday, April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Lawsuit against Favre should be dismissed, attorneys argue

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks to the media in Jackson, Miss., Oct. 17, 2018. On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, Favre filed lawsuits accusing the Mississippi state auditor and two sportscasters of defaming him in discussions about misspending of welfare money in the state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Brett Favre sues auditor, national sportscasters in defamation case

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks with reporters prior to his induction to the Mississippi Hall of Fame in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015. Mississippi's largest public corruption case in state history, in which tens of millions of dollars earmarked for needy families was misspent, involves a number of sports figures with ties to the state — including NFL royalty Brett Favre and a famous former pro wrestler. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Brett Favre says he’s ‘unjustly smeared’ in welfare case

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks to the media in Jackson, Miss., Oct. 17, 2018. The governor of Mississippi in 2017 was “on board” with a plan for a nonprofit group to pay Brett Favre more than $1 million in welfare grant money so the retired NFL quarterback could help fund a university volleyball facility, according to a text messages between Favre and the director of the nonprofit in court documents filed Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) **FILE**

Texts: Mississippi ex-governor knew of Favre welfare money

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

In this Nov. 27, 2000, file photo, Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre looks to pass during the second quarter against the Carolina Panthers of an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C. Favre looks at the quarterbacks on display this weekend with an admiration as strong as the throws he made as a Pro Football Hall of Fame player. (AP Photo/Rick Havner, File)

Brett Favre figures he likely suffered ‘thousands’ of concussions while playing football

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

FILE - Gov. Phil Bryant speaks about his legacy following a life of public service in his office at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Jan. 8, 2020. A defendant in a Mississippi welfare fraud case said in a court document she directed $1.1 million in welfare money to former NFL star Brett Favre at the direction of Bryant. Mississippi news outlets report that the accusation, which Bryant denies, is in a filing on behalf of defendant Nancy New, who, with her son, once ran a nonprofit group and an education company in Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Congressman asks DOJ to investigate former Gov. Phil Bryant

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