Just when you thought the DHS scandal couldn't get any worse, Anna Wolfe breaks the news that TANF money wound up.... wait for it.... drum roll.... in Ghana. Yes, the good ole Nigerian Prince(ss) scam actually worked. How Mississippi. She reported Tuesday:
Text messages obtained by Mississippi Today and a new court filing reveal that the state’s welfare funds may have been lost in another stunning plot: an African heiress gold bar scam.
For the majority of 2019, the federal welfare funds quietly flowed to a pharmaceutical startup with questionable financial prospects. The payments are one component of civil litigation the state is bringing against dozens of people or companies that misspent or improperly received welfare funds.
A pleading filed Dec. 12 in the lawsuit alleges that the company’s founder, a defendant in the case, turned around and sent at least some of that money to an investment group in Ghana, Africa, for a venture that he thought would make him rich but turned out to be a scam. You can't make this up.
Dear Phillbillies, geaux read Louisiana Political Hijinks by Vidrine. Y'all really need a basic course in how to do this right.
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My mistake. Sorry.
The money went back to the "old country."
Some people could start to think that Leonard Bentz has been playing a real life Missssippi Forrest Gump for a long time.
Now Mississippi Today gets him on the record commenting on the TANF Prevacus mess?
"But after months of stringing the scientist along, Martin finally told Vanlandingham he would have to first put up $25,000 to help pay for a “geological analysis” for the land that Martin said his overseas investor required.
Vanlandingham tried to find the money, but the scientist’s contacts had dried up and he was experiencing deep personal financial problems, according to the texts. He was forced to sell his family’s home to pay the taxes for Prevacus, he said, and ask his mom for a loan to get into a rental. Martin tried to put him at ease by saying things like, “I know what we are doing is pleasing to God.”
Vanlandingham tried to get Favre to secure the $25,000 through an investment in Prevacus from one of his fellow professional athletes, but they wouldn’t bite.
Then Favre suggested they ask the then-Mississippi governor for help and offer him stock in the company. Bryant bit. The men met with several others for dinner in Jackson at Walker’s Drive-In in late December of 2018."
https://mississippitoday.org/2023/12/19/welfare-funds-ghana-scam-prevacus/
"THE MEN MET WITH SEVERAL OTHERS"???
It might make one wonder who all these "several others" were.
Oh snap
Lol. LMAO even.
Don’t worry, we have faith that the project will go through.
You are watching The Beverly Philbillies!!!!
I feel a southern gothic novel of greed and downfall coming on.
I happen to be at Walker’s the night the dinner meeting occurred. Favre was there, the Gov, plus several others. Don’t remember much about the PowerPoint presentation other than how excited the Gov was about the sales pitch.
"I know what we are doing is pleasing to God.”
That seems like a sure sign it's about to get slimy.
"I feel a southern gothic novel of greed and downfall coming on."
Perhaps better suited to a sketch on that great thespian outlet of the past, Hee Haw (but with a Rocky Horror pastiche):
As Phil, Archie Campbell/Samuel Sternwheller/Col. Daddy (but Buck Owens could have done quite the turn, too, if you could have gotten him drunk somehow)
As Tate, Lulu (she'd need to lose a little weight but the flock stays, gol-darnit!)
As Davis, a special appearance by Leslie Jordan (who I know would have been tickled literally pink at the idea)
As New, Minnie Pearl's hat (a cheap thing with a price tag on it)
As Brett, Marianne Gordon/Col. Daddy's Daughter (no offense to any of the Honeys, but they made bank being attractive airheads with one apparent talent so who else?)
As Vanscammingscammedcannedham, Goober Lyndsey (mainly because, well, "Goober")
As the various wrasslers and lesser jocks, relatives, and other supernumerary parts, the cartoon jackasses in bondage gear (Shout-out to Stankin' Rankin!)
As Brett Farve's mailbox, "Thbbft, you was gone!"
The Ghanaians would be (and I'm sure are) just A-pickin' and A-grinnin'
And of course, as a Charles Gray inspired "Criminologist," it could only be the incredibly talented, both musically and acting, Roy Clark - "It's just some grift on the left...and then some theft from the right...put your hands on their hips...it was the pelvic thrust that made them indict..." (And I'm 100% certain Richard O'Brien would be 100% behind that, and not just euphemistically).
"These boys is gonna be my BRAIN TRUST!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYzy9-QWj6o
Whatever happened to all the Brett Farve commercials on TV? Is Brett holding out for more money?
I really, really wish Adam McKay, who wrote and directed the 2018 film VICE, would write a script in the same vein about this TANF shitshow to show the rest of the world how much Mississhitti Repugnicans care about their people. After all, MS is the poorest state in the whole USA, and these “leaders” would rather steal the money for their pet projects than spend it on “welfare” for the poor! The cruelty is the point, people…. SMDH
When you have control of Millions of Federal Dollars the powers to be think a little here and a little there won’t be missed! Later these crooks( some politicians) get out of control and misappropriate more, giving monies to their friends and families all while kissing and holding your babies!
We (majority white, working, loving, church going, soccer game watching, flag waving, tax paying, etc) citizens of Mississippi elect these same type idiots every four years. We just did it again a month ago. We deserve to reap what we sow, and just imagine how bad it would be if the Republicans weren't in charge.
Anyone see the channel 3 report last evening on the new found fraud in Rankin County?
Lord, 7:46, have you ever worked so hard in your life at something that made so little sense?
1:02 is another post by Kingfish that seems unrelated to anything.
I'll believe after due process. The MT article is rife with codicil, innuendo, suspicion, allegation, etc.
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
When you watched American Greed, but weren't smart enough to pick out the plot threads comon to all episodes...
@8:49 you believe in due process only when it suits you (i.e. when your conservative wing nut friends are involved).
This story cannot be true because Phil assured everyone that he didn’t know what was going on at DHS.
This story cannot be true because Phil assured everyone that he didn’t know what was going on at DHS.
lol
“The fact is, I did nothing wrong. I wasn’t aware of the wrongdoings of others. When I received evidence that suggested people appeared to be misappropriating funds, I immediately reported that to the agency whose job it is to investigate these matters. It’s been a long and difficult year watching as decades of my public service is dragged through the mud and hoping it doesn’t affect those closest to me.” https://www.mississippifreepress.org/32927/video-phil-bryant-releasing-all-tanf-welfare-scandal-texts-after-media-filing
"Lord, 7:46, have you ever worked so hard in your life at something that made so little sense? "
Hey - he's got the DELUXE egg nog recipe, not the one published recently here ;-)
I sure hope that all of you bedwetters in here screech loud and long as you did for Nancy New!
https://web.archive.org/web/20231221011157/https://amchamghana.org/2019/08/20/amcham-ghana-hosts-governor-of-mississippi-phil-bryant-for-a-dinner-reception/
https://nitter.net/PearlRiverFlow/status/1737309763522699586#m
https://openclassactions.com/settlements/spartan-mosquito-repellent-class-action.php
Is it possibly Philbilly could roll over to save his own ass? Who might HE rat out....hmmmm.
So is the FBI still investigating this. Is it possible Phil gets indicted?
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