Phil Bryant on Sept. 4, 2019 about funding the volleyball center at the University of Southern Mississippi’s main campus in Hattiesburg.
“Use of these funds (is) tightly controlled,” Bryant texted Favre on July 28, 2019, according to the filing.
Favre also secured $3.2 million for a drug company in which he had invested, according to court records.
Favre has also denied wrongdoing through his lawyer, who acknowledged that the ex-Packer has been interviewed by the FBI.
He added that Favre behaved honorably and never knew the state grants he was seeking were from the federal welfare program.