Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre disclosed he has Parkinson’s illness throughout a congressional listening to on Tuesday.
Brett Favre testified earlier than the Home Methods and Means Committee on Prevacus, an organization making a concussion drug that took $2 million from a Mississippi welfare fund (TANF).
The founding father of Prevacus over the summer time pleaded responsible to wire fraud and admitted he used the welfare cash to repay playing money owed.
“Sadly, I additionally misplaced an funding in an organization that I believed was growing a breakthrough concussion drug I assumed would assist others,” Brett Favre mentioned throughout a congressional listening to. “And I’m certain you’ll perceive why it’s too late for me, as a result of I’ve not too long ago been recognized with Parkinson’s. That is additionally a trigger expensive to my coronary heart.”
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Corridor of Fame quarterback Brett Favre disclosed throughout a congressional listening to on Tuesday that he was not too long ago recognized with Parkinson’s illness, a degenerative nervous system dysfunction that causes components of the mind to deteriorate and impacts motion.
Talking earlier than the Home Methods and Means Committee, Favre spoke about Prevacus, an organization making a concussion drug that obtained $2 million of Short-term Help for Needy Households (TANF) funds. Favre was the highest investor in Prevacus, and textual content messages present he started asking state officers for assist securing funds for the corporate in November 2018.
Prevacus’ founder, Jacob VanLandingham, pleaded responsible to wire fraud in July, admitting that he used Mississippi welfare cash to repay playing and different money owed.
Favre spoke about his involvement in a sprawling Mississippi welfare case. No less than $77 million in TANF funds, earmarked for poor households, had been diverted to the wealthy and highly effective, in line with a 2019 Mississippi state audit.
