A lot to unpack here - Times article, official state article, and the report itself:
Pick what you want to discuss:
Massive embezzlement (tens of millions of TANF money funneled through nonprofits for illegitimate uses)
Celebrity involvement (Brett Favre and Ted DiBiase)
Emergence (potentially) of a young Republican superstar (Shad White - Oxford, Harvard Law, first millennial elected to state office in Deep South)
The epitome of bad grants/program/contract management - the audit notes a myriad of contracts that can’t be located!
The articles cover things well - but really, the fact is that people stole money intended for some of the most destitute people in the country in a number of ways.
“When you read this one-hundred-plus page audit, you will see that, if there was a way to misspend money, it seems DHS leadership or their grantees thought of it and tried it.”
Proverbs 22:22-23 “Rob not the poor, because he is poor; neither oppress the afflicted in the gate, for Yahweh pleads their cause, and spoils the soul of their spoilers.”
