As well, court filings show the companies and their founder, Jake VanLandingham, faced substantial debts over the past several years, even as VanLandingham was pressing potential investors to help get his drugs to market.
Six people were arrested and charged in 2020 as part of what the state called a"multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme." They included Mississippi's welfare director and the head of a nonprofit, both of whom have entered guilty pleas. An NFL spokesperson wrote in an email,"The league office was contacted by this organization but provided no funding or any resources in support of its efforts." The spokesperson added that neither Miller nor Sills was an advisory member or associate for Prevacus, and the league was unaware of any teams using samples of PresolMD's cream.
Under the heading,"Milestones Achieved to Date," the document also says that PresolMD has"provided product samples and cultivated relationships with 6 NFL Active Teams." Elsewhere, under the heading,"Sales & Marketing Strategy & Financial Projections," the document says PresolMD is working in"partnership with the NFL Affiliate Groups."
A spokesperson for the NFLPA said"there is no affiliation with that company or person," adding,"If this person is representing that they have our support, that's false." The idea appeared to stem from research VanLandingham and others had conducted several years earlier at Emory University. While working as a postdoctoral researcher, VanLandingham was the lead author on two scientific papers -- one in 2006, the other in 2008 -- that described how progesterone and a related steroid had shown positive results on concussed rats.
VanLandingham said Favre initially was issued stock options for joining Prevacus'"Sports Advisory Board." Since then, Favre has become"a fairly large shareholder" in the company, VanLandingham said."After you have a concussion, you have temporary energy crisis in the brain," VanLandingham told WDAM-TV in Mississippi in 2014.
Within months of that appearance, according to the Mississippi lawsuit, Favre was urging VanLandingham to contact Nancy New to get funds from the state's Department of Human Services. Favre, the lawsuit said, let VanLandingham know New had"previously provided substantial funds on his behalf." In reality, there was no research on humans to suggest anything of the sort. In fact, beyond the research he conducted at Emory, VanLandingham hadn't been a part of any published studies related to the drug's efficacy, according to a search of PubMed. And while the rat studies might have provided some optimism, that was a far cry from showing it would work to mitigate concussions in humans, let alone eliminate CTE.
VanLandingham told ESPN that it was never his intention to suggest the drug definitely would work, but rather that it had worked on animals and he predicted it might work on humans. He said he always made it clear the drug was yet to be approved by the FDA. Asked about the dearth of published research around Prevacus' drug, Odyssey president and CEO Mike Redmond said,"One thing that we are careful about, we have been counseled on from our patent attorneys and everybody else is that the more you publish, the less likely, or the weaker your patent position. So, I know that Prevacus was certainly concerned about protecting their patent position and not putting too much information into the public domain, and I'm of the same mindset.
"All you gotta do is take a little bit on your index finger, rub it on the left side of the trachea, then take a little bit and rub it on the right," he said."And in less than 30 minutes, that small anti-inflammatory will be in your brain, I promise. And it will be working. Yep."In fact, at that point, the drug had been tested only on dogs, and its efficacy on humans had not been assessed.
DeKosky, Weinberger and other experts expressed even more skepticism about the cream than the nasal spray, again noting the absence of any data to support the claims.
Honestly Brett’s Brain is so messed up at this point I don’t think he’s even capable of running some big fraud scheme. He’s probably just a pawn in this thing.
But where all told by the media Colin Kap was the evil bad QB who hates America 🤷♀️🤔
shaunking Between Wrangler jeans, and a good portion of the “as seen on tv” section at Walgreens, there is nothing he won’t endorse.
shaunking Why is Favre not in jail for his other issues of stealing money from MS?
Prison
I love when a tweet that is 18 hours old literally shows up at the TOP of my feed! 😣🤦🏼♂️🙄
Now watch how you won’t hear about this again.
🗑️
When are they going to put this on the front page? He should have stuck to football. He has given then NFL a black eye. Time to issue the federal arrest warrant.
Na jail time buddy. The same way you fucks do the blacks
He’s officially dead to me
It gets better and better!
Greedy evidently-very racist, man, Brett Favre.
jussassy2u Now do the covid vaccine
Favre working for Pfizer now?
has anyone torched their legacy more thoroughly than this guy?
I knew copperfit was a fucking scam
shaunking As much as black people are in the public eye for scrutiny, we must place white people in that same vision
Now do the covid vaccine
Haters
A drug company lied? You don't say
When is he going to jail? He needs to be gone. Unnecessary greed. He has EVERYTHING and then some. Let him see what’s it like not to have something. Freedom.
shaunking He’s still walking around free, no more news on him or big talk, but everybody’s talking about Kyrie
TaylorTwellman Lookin dicey at best for old Burt Favray.
NFL almost makes FIFA squeaky clean 🧼
Favre can suck on deeznutz fr 🖕🏾
Kinda reminds you of Trump doesn’t it?
So are we canceling Brett Favre now ?
Brett Fucked.
Get this bum outta here.
MatthewACherry lock him up
That copper fit do be workin miracles tho
Hey there you ever gonna hold this rich white man accountable for stealing federal funds from the poorest of Mississippi’s poor ? He’s 2 for 2 now Maybe you could do one of those 30 on 30 episodes on this good ol’ boy Not what “Hallow” would teach beatitudes
AntheaButler Good athletes can be horrible people! They usually have horrible friends they play golf with.
Ooooh along with stealing welfare fund for personal use smh. Yet no one is being publicly FLOGGRMED nor made to grovel and apologize like their doing with KyrieIrving
Good lord Brett 🤦♂️
Everything around this guy stinks. I hope richeisen eventually tears him down.
Favre is a victim in this instance … assuming that a company who need funds, that they told financial backers that the data isn’t correct is dishonesty to a high degree for obvious reasons
He really is a villain, lol. Send his ass to jail, bro.
Same with the COVId vax. Nothing to see here.
Send this piece of shit MAGA Moron to prison!
shaunking Con-man gonna con BrettFavre
BrettFavre anything to say? 🤡🤡🤡
Lock him up.
shaunking Noooooooo? You mean the United States is a Pyramid scam! A country where fraud and scams are daily!!
He might be the worst person on the planet.
Wow...
Is Brett Favre just a professional government swindler now or what?
Of course they did
Seems the media is all in on the take down of BrettFavre but to his credit he doesn't take the bait...he no longer needs to deal with the media and doesn't...
Brett Favre just an all time bad guy lmao
shaunking “It’s a conspiracy to frame Favre”
Lock his ass up! If it was a black man you would be outraged!
Brett Farve is a bad dude. Everybody says he is sketchy. Hope more truth comes out. We need to see white men held accountable. It’s good for the culture.
shaunking Brett Fraud.
And yet we want to cancel Kyrie🤨
shaunking Fraud.
Sounds familiar…..Covid-19
ArrestBretFavre
Arrest this man.
Not again brett
Must learn the Cupid shuffle and remain on beat and keep good rhythm the entire song and randomly do the griddy in public areas for no reason
That, ladies and gentlemen, is fraud.
Alex Guerrero Tom’s massage guy and trainer used to market some BS concussion cocktail that was obviously no sense as well.
Okay but our government, the president, Fauci, and basically every news media overstated the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine and people lost their jobs because of it.. that should be a bigger story than this 🤷♂️
So they lied
What about Copper Fit? Was it all a big lie?
The grifter that keeps on giving.
Wow, a drug company did that? Now don't forget to post a story about every company that made a Covid Vaccine and their claims. They did ZERO studies and told folks it would prevent infection and spread. Neither was true. So either attack them as well, or cut Favre some slack.
I invested in Enron, so since I 'backed' them, am I now responsible for their actions Guilt by association?
rolandsmartin Slimeball
EmbryEthan
These care just sports guys, not necessarily role models for you to imitate. He threw a football very well. Otherwise, he could be a monster and corrupt through and through.
Despicable man smh
Terrible person put him in prison for life!
Oh 😯
Need Y’all To Have The Same Energy Y’all Have Wit Kyrie. AllEven
lajaveli_ Wake me up when he get arrested
ShannonSharpe talk your ish !!! Let’s see that energy !
Lock Him Up!
Can this dude face some kind of punishment or accountability already
Nooooo Brett Favre is complete piece of human garbage….color me shocked
This dude is a super-crook, why is he still walking around? He has no fear that he’ll be held responsible for anything he does wrong. What a life a live, being untouchable.
Oh man..
He needs to be in jail.
BrettFavre is a white collar criminal.
Your daily reminder that Favre is a trash person with a tiny peen.
He's a pos
It must suuuuck to be a Packers fan
Brett Favre is apparently trying to out-douche himself year after year.
Can’t wait to see Brett speak at CPAC next year against cancel culture
Why he’s not in jail by now ? BBCSport SkySports
Grade A Loser!!
TheShadeRoom
I need u to do ur thing unc ShannonSharpe … roast him good
Damn, just keeps getting better and better with Favre huh....
TajaiBreck 🤡👇🏾
Why is no one talking about Kyrie though
Let's say I'm confuse which I'm not, first the material was on Amazon platform, which is own by whom? Not Kyrie. Rap/ drill killing is produce by whom? 400yrs of slavery was perpetrated on who by whom? But Kyrie is anti what? And this guy here gets off Y?
Not defending this scumbag but isn’t this what Moderna and Pfizer do as well?
This guy just gets worse and worse…
He belongs in jail
Sounds like the vaccine. Yet nobody seemed to care.
But what about Brett Favre 😭
Things people are suddenly concerned about... drug companies exaggerating the effectiveness of their product
Some folks in the comments acting like Favre’s in the lab with some test tubes. I may have stock in Clorox but I don’t know how they’re making the bleach.
But about the money he stole…
I he comes to Brazil probably he'll be ellected President.
Y’all won’t crucify him the way y’all do Kyrie and Ye
Yall should cancel him like yall canceling Kyrie.
When tryna hit a lick goes wrong.
He should be stripped of all nfl achievements and records unless the nfl agrees with his behavior 🫵🏾
i think they made a movie about this called Dropout on Hulu
I hope you slander this man like kyrie Irving. I want 24/7 round the clocck coverage brettfavrewellfarefraud espn BrettFavre
Brett Favre is a dirtbag
Growing up, he was one of my favorite players. As an adult, it's regretful I ever liked him. He is a miserable human being.
Wtf I don’t wanna hear shit else about that quest the Nets sent Kyrie on until Farve ass is in jail
Should the Rooney rule be applied here when finding the right Lawyer, just checking.
Favre gonna need to come out of retirement to make some scratch
Brett Favre a scammer scammer huh (Also, why is his last name spelled like a typo)
Jail time or pay a huge fine! You know what both!
Lock him up. Serial fraudster with a long history of it. Hope Federal charges are coming if MS refuses to prosecute.
It says it all in the text: These 2 companies '...overstated their NFL connections and exaggerated the known effectiveness of their drugs...' but it's Brett Favre who gets the limelight and bad publicity. Nice job ESPN.
Wow
I wonder what the NBA is gonna do since all the “non” antisemetic people want them to punish Favre like Kyrie… 🤡🤡🤡s’
Of course they lied.
Favre is a felon
Blow this tf up
This Brett guy really must be stupid to think he would get away with taking money from the needed, stealing when you have millions..... I think the Feds will give him jail time forsure! STUPID ASS FAVRE WITH THE FRAUD
I'm shocked...................said no one ever !
And yet hes not getting defamed
Let’s calm down. This is an American hero we are talking about. There are thousands of young people that look up to him. No need to jump to any conclusions based on a little “tall tale” about some medicine. If the medicine isn’t strong enough, just take more!!
He’s so awful. Next Republican presidential candidate material awful.
Sounds like fauci and Covid to me
Dr Evil
Now give this the same energy you gave Kyrie
Why isn’t he arrested? Lol America 🇺🇸 is a joke.
So like Phyzer and Moderna
Where are the sponsors cutting ties or active/retired NFL players speaking out against Favre’s welfare scandal?
Sue them into chapter 7
He's 🗑🗑 should already be in prison for the welfare fraud...something has to happen like wtf!!!
So he invested in companies and is now liable?
Just one more scandal and he’s ready for a life in politics.
Also ESPN: GRRRR KAEPERNICK BAD MAN TOO
grifters gotta grift
He should be charged
Brett is going to cut himself and sweet deal, because he's going to give up the goods on everybody.
I just really don’t like this dude. Off to the gulag with him.
Criminal.
Why isn't this in jail with all these fraud accusations?
Brett. Brett. Brett Wtf u doin
BrettFavre loves pills
Crook
He got that alcoholic texture to his skin
He look like something sobering just happened after a week long bender
🤬
He look guilty lmao
🤡 🤡
Throw this man in jail.
Typical republican
Vikings legend btw
Why is Brett looking like roll tide Willie?!? 😂
When will people get it! Farce is a white republican from MS.. why is anything he do a surprise! This is who he is!
Capitalism doing it's thing. Shocker. FOX won't air one second of this tragedy but is telling it's viewers that literally China wants American kids to be gay 🤣🤣
y’all finally reported on him
LADRegSznChamps Brett Fraudre?
Get every BLACK Pundit to talk about this! On repeat for the rest of the month
This is all because he was anti-vaxx.
F all these companies for making false drug claims. If they make false claims to raise money, they need to go to jail.
Never been a bigger devil then a white man from Mississippi smh...
Now do Pfizer 😂
I want the same Kyrie energy to MF
Is this separate from his other transgression of taking money from the poor or is this same incident?
This going to fly under the radar because of kyrie and Kanye rants
Charge every celeb that backed the corona vaccine that never was tested and was lied about it’s effectiveness still ti this day.
ESPNNFL when's this Favre asshole going to jail?
Brett Fraud
TCIIIESQ This is pretty much every drug company.
ESPNNFL Trump better watch his back or Favre will slither his way into the Republican Presidential spot at this rate!
lock him up
Translation , people will believe anything !!!!!
Ok so when is he going to prison?
He will get a $50.46 fine and that'll be that
Fraudulent Favre
What is this guy's lifetime earnings again? The grift is unreal
He is more disgusting by the minute…. His wife special needs or spineless?! So awkward.
Adios, george
scumbag
Coulda swore 'nobody' was talkin bout this 🤔
Free Brett. Only reason people are upset because the perception that a white man may have down something wrong and people want to jump all over him.
A drug company exaggerated the effectiveness of their drug?!?! Im sure this has never happened before…
What a douche!!
Can't trust athletes who do copper fit commercials
Free him 🤬🤬🤬🤬
overstating and exaggerating known effectiveness of their drugs is a prerequisite for being a drug company/dealer. shitsfirebro
So much more benefit of the doubt will Farve get? Or is fraud and greed just as American as football. So all good?
Why is he not in prison?
nickmaraldo oh boyyy
SportsLawLust
Brett Favre belongs in jail
Hoodlum
Can’t wait to see him riot in jail
BUT KYIREEEEEE......
Throw him in a cell
nickmaraldo is gonna be extra toxic on the PatMcAfeeShow today 😂
KYRIE FANS ARE YOU UP
ESPNNFL TLDR: Drug companies supported by Favre are liars
Shocking a drug company pushing a drug that doesn't work...and celebrities endorsing 🙄
A straight fraud. What’s he think the justice department is ran by hillbilly southern frauds
guy is addicted to frauds. can’t get enough of them
Brett Favre challenge (don’t commit federal crime) difficulty impossible
This guy is gonna go to jail. He seems to be the one common piece linked to all of the allegations.
Jail
I bet Farve enjoys sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s.
F Joe Biden!!
How long till hes on tucker carlson claiming cancel culture 💀💀
It takes a special kind of shitty to steal money from welfare programs. I hope Farve and everyone involved see jailtime.
When does he run for SENATE! 😎
Don’t care unless this ends up with him in prison