.A Kentucky man sought to fake his death to stay away from paying out kid assistance commitments by hacking in to condition registries and falsifying official records, federal district attorneys claimed.Jesse Kipf, 39, of Somerset, was punished Monday to nine years in government prison after arriving at a plea contract where he admitted visiting wonderful durations to avoid little one assistance repayments.Kipf's scheme began in January 2023 when he accessed Hawaii's death computer system registry system by using the username and also password of a medical professional living in one more condition, depending on to a media release from Carlton Shier, the united state legal representative for the Eastern Area of Kentucky. The moment inside the body, Kipf produced a lawsuit for his personal fatality and also finished a worksheet for a death certificate in that condition, the government prosecutor stated.The submitting caused Kipf being signed up as a dead person in many federal government data sources, the release mentioned. Kipf additionally accessed other condition pc registry devices and personal networks utilizing references derived from genuine individuals, and tried to sell the accessibility on the dim internet, prosecutors claimed." Kipf acknowledged that he forged his personal death, partially, to prevent his excellent kid help responsibilities," prosecutors pointed out.Kipf was actually jailed in November and also pleaded bad in April to federal government fees of complicated identity theft as well as computer fraudulence. He was penalized in united state District Court in Greater London on Monday.Kipf separated in 2008 and also he was set up to Iraq for nearly a year in between 2007 and also 2008, depending on to court reports.He should pay for more than $195,000 in restoration for damage to computer system systems and the remaining total of his kid assistance, the government said.Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.