FILE - Nancy New, who ran a private education company and a nonprofit organization in Mississippi, pleaded guilty to state charges of misusing public money that was intended to help some of the poorest people in the nation, in Hinds County Circuit Court, Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. New said in a court filing Feb. 26, 2024, that former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant told people in 2019, during his final weeks in office, that he had been offered a financial stake in a company that had received welfare money for its effort to develop a concussion drug. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - During his final week in office, Mississippi Republican Gov. Phil Bryant ponders a question in the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on, Jan. 8, 2020. Nancy New, who was convicted in 2022 in a welfare misspending case, said in a court filing Feb. 26, 2024, that Bryant told people in 2019, during his final weeks of office, that he had been offered a financial stake in a company that had received welfare money for its effort to develop a concussion drug. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks to the media in Jackson, Miss., Oct. 17, 2018. Nancy New, who was convicted in 2022 in a welfare misspending case in Mississippi, said in a court filing Feb. 26, 2024, that former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant told people in 2019, during his final weeks of office, that he had been offered a financial stake in a company that had received welfare money for its effort to develop a concussion drug -- a company in which Favre was an investor. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)