Imagine you're Nancy New, going down for the crime of the century, and you open Mississippi Today to read texts a retired QB sent to the governor about the very scheme sending you to prison...texts you realize the state has had for 2 years and you've never seen
mississippitoday.org/2024/02/28/phi…

Officers took a look at the alleged kidnappers — a 330-pound retired NFL player and a longhaired pot grower from California — and “they just went haywire and thought they had something that they just didn’t have.” mississippitoday.org/2024/02/27/jer…

Nancy New, key welfare scandal defendant, is offering new accounts in her defense -- such as the Christmas party where Gov. Bryant allegedly 'got excited' that the CEO of a company he 'had been funding' with welfare $ 'offered him 'half the company.'' mississippitoday.org/2024/02/26/phi…

Dang. The Uncertain Hour was a guiding light when I started really digging into the TANF story—a complicated, bureaucratic mess. We need to keep this kind of storytelling around.

A welfare scandal defendant lost up to $30,000 —allegedly partially DHS funds — to an African gold bar scam. It would have taken a family of three 15 years to receive that much in the welfare check — which would have been impossible since the assistance maxes out at five years.