Here's how a tech company got ensnared in the Mississippi welfare scandal and why it still maintains its innocence after settling the suit.
‘A little bit of blood’: Mississippi tech company settles welfare scandal suit by Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today April 23, 2024 Ricky Junco was working a low-wage, e-commerce job at Goodwill and volunteering to teach Microsoft Word to kids at a youth detention center in 2018 when he met Vince Jordan, founder of a local tech startup. Junco had been looking for ways to strengthen his skills to secure better employment.
eventually disposed of the equipment by sending it to the Mississippi Office of Surplus Property, which sells the public’s unused or confiscated items. has not named Bryant as a defendant in the civil suit and he is not facing any criminal charges. Bryant’s attorney declined to comment on the former governor’s dealings with Lobaki.
had begun pushing tens of millions of TANF funds to the two nonprofits running Families First for Mississippi. Technically, states may define “needy” however they want. For the types of services Families First provided, Mississippi had set the income threshold at 300% of the poverty line, so in 2018, a family of three could have earned $60,000 and still qualified for the program. But no one was checking.
and where Families First would soon be headquartered. Dylan White, VR programmer at Lobaki, works on a project at the company, Thursday, April 19, 2024 in Jackson. Family Resource Center of North Mississippi, the nonprofit running Families First in the northern part of the state, paid Lobaki the $635,000 in one lump sum payment at the start of the contract. In January of 2019, Gov.
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