Brett Farve Suing Shannon Sharpe

Last month political activist Dr. Umar Johnson announced that he had been served with a cease and desist letter from Brett Favre for speaking about Brett's welfare fraud scandal [click here if you missed that]. 

Now Brett is going after sports analyst Shannon Sharpe...

From The Daily Mail 

Brett Favre is suing ex-NFL players and current media personalities Shannon Sharpe and Pat McAfee, as well as Mississippi Auditor Shad White, for 'defamatory allegations' made over the Packers legend's involvement in a $77 million welfare fraud scheme, DailyMail.com has learned.

'Shannon Sharpe and Pat McAfee tried to further their careers by making baseless defamatory allegations against Brett Favre,' a spokesperson for the 53-year-old told DailyMail.com.

Sharpe, a Hall of Fame tight end with the Broncos and Ravens, called Favre a 'sleazeball' on his FS1 show in September while accusing the retired quarterback of knowingly stealing $1.1 million in Mississippi welfare funds in exchange for speeches that he never made. McAfee, a former Colts punter who now hosts a popular SiriusXM podcast, accused Favre of 'stealing from the poor people of Mississippi.'

Favre has not been charged in the case, which has already resulted in several guilty pleas, and he has since repaid the $1.1million. However, Favre refused to pay $228,000 interest being charged to him by White, while insisting that he did not know the origin of the funding he received.

In December, the Mississippi Department of Human Services dropped its $1.1million demand from Favre, admitting that he repaid the debt, while issuing a new $5 million demand, saying he used anti-poverty funds to pay for a volleyball arena at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi.