A federal judge on Monday dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Brett Favre against Shannon Sharpe related to Favre's alleged involvement in an ongoing welfare fraud case in Mississippi.
Xuan Thai is a senior writer and producer in ESPN's investigative and enterprise unit. She was previously deputy bureau chief of the south region for NBC News.
Favre had accused Sharpe of making"egregiously false" statements about him in September 2022 on the Fox Sports 1 talk show"Skip and Shannon: Undisputed." The judge also emphasized that Sharpe noted on the show that Favre had not been criminally charged. More than a year later, there remain no criminal charges against the former quarterback.Favre is one of dozens of defendants in a Mississippi civil lawsuit seeking to recoup some of the at least $77 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds that were misspent, according to a state audit published in 2020. Eight people have been indicted, six of whom have pleaded guilty.
"Although the funds may have come from the State of Mississippi, such TANF funds were intended to go to poverty-stricken families, not to fund the construction of a college volleyball ."
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