Report: Mississippi fires attorney investigating Brett Favre's connection to welfare scam

The state of Mississippi’s welfare department has fired attorney Brad Pigott, according to a local report from Mississippi Today’s Anna Wolfe. Pigott had originally been hired to investigate NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre’s potential connection to a payment of $5 million made to the University of Southern Mississippi, his alma mater.

“All I did, and I believe all that caused me to be terminated from representing the department or having anything to do with the litigation, was to try to get the truth about all of that,” Pigott said, via Mississippi Today. “People are going to go to jail over this, at least the state should be willing to find out the truth of what happened.”

In another report from the New York Times, Pigott had gone on record as to saying that Favre had promised to give $5 million to the construction of the university’s volleyball stadium. Favre reportedly asked Mississippi Community Education Center to fund it instead of writing the check himself.

Pigott said that the MCEC indeed paid the $5 million, but “disguised it as a payment for use of university facilities that did not occur.” And now, the center has created its own public backlash by the way the money was distributed in one of the country’s poorest states.

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“I’m a born and raised Mississippian, and this particular kind of fraud was just an especially offensive failure to use money to serve what [federal] law calls ‘needy families,’ of which we have an excess supply in Mississippi, and do have great, great needs,” Pigott told the New York Times. “I found it especially offensive that they so cavalierly spent so many millions of dollars intended to remove poverty in this state, and instead spend it on each other and celebrity figures and corporations and their favorite institutions.”

Pigott went on to tell Mississippi Today that he believes his firing occurred because his work was allegedly too close to exposing new addition’s to Favre’s involvement financially to his alma mater.

“I am sure they can find a loyal Republican lawyer to do the work,” Pigott said.