The Mississippi Area of Human Products and services has filed realize of its intent to depose former NFL quarterback Brett Favre as a part of its lawsuit in search of to get well hundreds of thousands of greenbacks in misspent welfare price range.

In a courtroom submitting Monday, the company stated its attorneys had been scheduled to rush Favre’s sworn testimony starting Oct. 26 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In keeping with Entrance Place of business Sports activities, this will be the first Favre deposition, however the ones concerned within the case aren’t commenting as a result of a pass judgement on’s gag line.

A attorney for Favre declined to remark and an MDHS spokesman additionally declined to respond to questions. In a July courtroom submitting, a attorney for Favre stated his consumer “does not intend to invoke the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination” in reference to the case.

Favre, 53, has denied wrongdoing and has now not been criminally charged within the case. His alleged involvement turned into identified in Might 2022, when he was once named as one among 38 fresh defendants. MDHS’s lawsuit seeks to recoup no less than $77 million in Brief Backup for Unpriviledged Households (TANF) price range, which a shape audit stated was once diverted from broke households to lavish and strong public within the shape. As of Might 2023, there have been 47 defendants within the case.

On the center of the dispute between MDHS and Favre is a volleyball facility inbuilt 2019 at Favre’s alma mater, the College of Southern Mississippi. Favre donated his personal cash and helped lift price range for the power. Textual content messages, that have change into community in criminal filings as a part of the lawsuit, display he driven shape officers for cash right through the generation his daughter was once at the group.

The college’s athletic bedrock gained $5 million in TANF price range. In keeping with a shape audit and the lawsuit, Favre was once paid $1.1 million from TANF price range for speeches the auditor says Favre by no means made. He in the end paid the cash again, however the auditor has demanded he additionally pay $228,000 in passion. Prevacus, an organization growing a concussion drug wherein Favre was once the manage out of doors investor and stockholder, additionally gained TANF price range.

8 public were indicted in reference to the case, six of whom have pleaded accountable for his or her involvement. A Hinds County pass judgement on has filed a suppression line restricting pretrial exposure till the case is going to trial or is resolved.

MDHS additionally has sought a deposition from former Southern Omit president Rodney Bennett, who lately was once named chancellor on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln. That deposition is scheduled for Oct. 31 in Lincoln, Nebraska. MDHS has additionally subpoenaed Bennett for communications with Favre and diverse alternative public concerned within the case. A Nebraska spokesman didn’t instantly go back a message in search of remark.