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.

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.

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…

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…

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…