Last week, Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe published her latest in a series of investigative reports call "The Backchannel". It follows the web of connections behind the state's TANF welfare fraud scandal.
Friday's publication adds another wrinkle to the story. According to text messages obtained by Mississippi Today, then-Lt. Governor Tate Reeves has a role in diverting funding to a project headed by his personal trainer.
To better understand where this piece of the puzzle fits, we invited Anna Wolfe to give us a comprehensive background of the fraud scandal and her reporting. We begin with the announcement that started it all.