A Mississippi prison inmate serving time for capital murder was recently indicted for unemployment fraud.

At the height of the economic shutdown during the COVID pandemic a variety of services intended for government based financial relief such as food assistance and unemployment simplified their application process and wait time in order to provide relief quickly with fewer requirements.

Government funded departments across the country have been auditing their financial relief programs for possible fraud during the last few years. Some individuals used fraudulent businesses or fraudulent data about their existing business in order to obtain the maximum amount of money possible.

That is how we found this document, an indictment against a Mississippi inmate, Kenjarrel Thomas, for unemployment fraud.

On April 5, 2024, an indictment was issued for Thomas for allegedly applying for unemployment by using the names of multiple other individuals and had the funds sent to his mother.

Thomas is an inmate in Mississippi due to a 2016 conviction of capital murder for the death of Charles Dukes. A 67-year-old man found deceased in his car behind a credit union.

In other words, Thomas was incarcerated while he committed the alleged crimes of unemployment fraud.