The Mississippi Mess from last Friday is becoming ten pounds of Republican embezzlement in a five pound bag.

It’s going federal now.  Well, at least until Bill Barr finds out about it and changes the investigation to Democrats who willfully breathed free air in Mississippi.

So it turns out that the nonprofit at the center of the Mississippi embezzlement scandal got millions of dollars in federal funds.  The federal grant money doubled in 2018 – after Senator Cindy Hyde Smith was appointed to the Senate, which is beginning to look kinda fishy.

In 2017, records show nearly $13 million in federal grant money flowed into the coffers of the Mississippi Community Education Center, the nonprofit organization used as the vehicle for a massive conspiracy and embezzlement scheme.

That grant money doubled in 2018 to nearly $27 million.

It’s unclear how much of that was actually utilized as intended, to help the poorest Mississippians in difficult times of need.

I’m betting none of it. At least as long as a Trump supporting Republican was holding the checkbook.