Jackson Jambalaya

So what makes some of these folks criminally liable and not the others? The way I see it, for example, Brett DiBiase was charged criminally for part performance and little money, but Brett Favre gets a walk on part performance and a larger amount of money. At the end of the day they will both have to pay the money back, one just has to deal with felony charges and the other does not.

Yes, yes, I've heard the typical "Favre is connected more than DiBiase" and "Favre is the best ever." But Favre has been on the outskirts of a couple shady deals. When does LEO/Feds/DA/AG say enough is enough?

Repeat three times and click your heels: Shad White identified Governor Phil Bryant as the MDHS whistleblower on Gallo's show on Super Talk!

Is that the same Jess New who is the Executive Director of the Oil & Gas Board?

Some of these are really ridiculous, I'm sure, but a very serious question... If a state agency or subcontractor had the legal right to let a contract and did so with a contractor that did what the contract said, is there anything to be clawed back? (Even if the money was excessive and even if the duties called for in the contract were trivial?)

I'm thinking that these contracts were all made with a wink and a nod and maybe even a "We like you guys and I know there isn't much to do here, but we want to support you." type of comments, but if they did what the contract said and the contract was legally allowed by law, will that money ever come back?

it looks like about 50 lawyers are about to get hired to defend lots of good intentioned zealous willfully blind people and entities. Watch for bankruptcies galore.

10:24. Yes, it is ED of the OGB and his name is also listed on SOS website with Magnolia Strategies, LLC

Poor Marcus DuPree is the king of poor decision making. It seems if two options are presented to him, he innately picks the worst one.

Lobaki? What is that? Never heard that name associated with this tragedy until now. What did they get money for?

@10:15a- I think it has more to do with knowledge of the scheme.

More than likely, Favre accepted the appearance/speaking money in good faith under what looked like legitimate pretenses. It doesn't appear he had any working knowledge of the fraud. However, he should have returned every single penny the minute the news broke.

Those who were criminally implicated must have participated in fraudulently processing/receiving the funds and/or were aware that the funds were not being used for their intended purposes but went along anyway.

So is DHS recovering the funds or is Shad recovering the funds? Will credit be given to those individuals if DHS recovers the funds?

I absolutely agree with the recovery of funds, but not double recovery of funds.

KF is willfully hiding info on NIH gain of function research because he took the jab . Stands firm on being a Fauci Fool ! He is a minion in the Fauci Fear Army. Piss on this site and piss on his podcast !

When and where will USM’s bake sale be held to gather their illegally obtained funds?

Maybe Mississippi Southern can sell Nugget and garner enough to cover the clawback.

Correction: Maybe Mississippi Southern can sell the dead remains of Nugget.

These people represent the true face of welfare fraud.

clawbacks? no such thing in MS. Now if they contributed to the success of the fraud by selling them milk or delivering cookies, watch out

Didn’t Phil Bryant give Jon Davis a going away party at the governor’s mansion? Is that part of the protocol of being a whistleblower?

So many questions - Here's three:

1) Familiae Orientem LLC - Was this a side trip from the Paree Air Show over to Italy?

2) Will the USM girls' volleyball stadium be sold to the private sector now that Bryant and Favre got it built with stolen money? We all know damned well who pulled THOSE strings!

3) Will USM stop playing the Yankee Battle Hymn (pre football games) and leave the Dixie Darlings alone?

Farve and their favorite son governor got USM into this mess to begin with. The governor should donate some of his unused campaign funds to cover that for them. I am sure Farve had a lot to do with too..wishing for a volleyball facility for his daughter .

unhinged and obsessed at 12:58

If a subgrantee to DHS has a written agreement with DHS & the deliverables/ terms were met then DHS is probably out of luck.

3:12 - Please try to keep up. In most of these situations, if not all, the 'deliverables' and 'terms' were either NOT met, were partially met or there were none. In the case of USM (Bryant wants buildings with his name on them), there were no terms other than that the school exists and there was no volley-ball arena for girls. Nothing to do with TANF. That was fraud from the get-go. The Bryant's knew that and Favre knew that. For Bryant to pretend he thought there was a TANF connection with a girls' gym is asinine.

In Favres' case, we learned early on (a year ago) that he did meet part of the obligation to do certain 'commercials' but there's no record of making them all, so he agreed to a partial pay-back.

In the most blatant and famous cases, there were terms that were fraudulently proposed from the get-go: For example teaching drug rehab while enrolled in drug rehab.

@3:12PM That's what I was thinking. The ones that met their contractual obligations should be free and clear even if the contracts were ill-conceived and maybe even didn't follow procurement laws, etc. The contractors that actually did what they said they were going to do can't be blamed because someone was an idiot in giving them the contract or using funds for the contract that shouldn't be used for that purpose.

Of course that's not the situation with many of the noteworthy ones, but I'm thinking a lot of these folks will just pull out the paperwork showing they met their obligations and tell the state to stick it. (& win in court if pressed.)

Never trust anyone wearing black and gold polyester.

2:59 : Concerned that there is no way to stop the end of this country as we know it. I gave up certain freedoms and served my country to help insure they would always remain. Did you ? Of course not.

The story here may be that Favre's middle name is Lorenzo

If contracts are violative of governing law which precede sub contracts then all these cases are viable.

If I could rob a bank and then contract with subs to build me a movie theatre in Jackson with 8 screens and a Pilates studio and a KFC……I still used stolen funds and the later built items are subject to seizure.

@3:12 is correct. TANF expenditures are broad, very broad. If a contractor performed a service for which it was paid, DHS will have a hard time clawing anything back. If any DHS execs signed off on these expenditures or programs, DHS will also have a very hard time pointing the finger now.

Deppity Feel can attend John Davis next going away party...probably as he is in the custody of federal marshalls headed to CLUB FED ON A LUXURIOUS PRISON BUS!

Nobody from Mississippi wearing $2600 cowboy boots has ever served federal time.

(Or been clawed-back!)

The Oil & Gas Board is a corrupt body. I have practiced before it. I would post more details, but I fear retaliation.

When do the News go trial?

Rumor is the prosecution has delayed the trial again.

What happened to Latimer Smith? Is he out of this now?

Keep filtering posts to protect a certain select few. They too will be exposed. You are nothing but a moderator for this petri dish of a site, driven by ego and a need to feel important. It’s sad.

"Keep filtering posts to protect a certain select few. They too will be exposed. You are nothing but a moderator for this petri dish of a site, driven by ego and a need to feel important. It’s sad."


That you would come on someone's OWN blog and criticize how he runs it, is "sad". Don't like it? Go publish your own and stay off this site.

Hey 1:19p.m. that's ALL ya got on SOUTHERN MISS? a comment about something that happened 20 years ago. Whoa I bet your friends call you SWIFTY !!!!

Ultimately the State of Mississippi will have to cough up the unspent funds. As to the individuals who received the funds through contractual obligations, it is going to be rather difficult (and wrong) for a court to allow a recovery, without upsetting the law of contracts in Mississippi.

I hope those commenting on contract law don't actually practice law. Just because there may be some document with the word "Contract" on it doesn't mean there is actually a contract. There are numerous things that could make the contact non-existent, void, voidable, etc. Without knowing a lot more facts and seeing the alleged contract document(s), no one would be able to offer a (reasonable) opinion on whether there is or is not a "contract."

Anyway, you can try to get the exhibits for the report? I'd love to get some popcorn and read some emails and look at invoices.

LaCoste claims he wouldn’t misuse funds or take from the poor. Really???? Ass hole