.A Kentucky man attempted to artificial his fatality to stay away from paying out kid support obligations by hacking into state computer registries and misstating formal records, federal district attorneys pointed out.Jesse Kipf, 39, of Somerset, was actually punished Monday to nine years in federal penitentiary after reaching a plea agreement where he accepted visiting excellent spans to steer clear of kid assistance settlements.Kipf's scheme began in January 2023 when he accessed Hawaii's fatality pc registry unit by using the username and security password of a physician residing in another condition, depending on to a news releases from Carlton Shier, the united state lawyer for the Eastern District of Kentucky. When inside the unit, Kipf produced a claim for his personal death as well as completed a worksheet for a death certificate because state, the federal government district attorney said.The submitting resulted in Kipf being actually registered as a deceased individual in several authorities data sources, the release mentioned. Kipf additionally accessed other state pc registry bodies and also exclusive networks making use of references taken from actual people, and tried to sell the get access to on the dim internet, district attorneys mentioned." Kipf admitted that he fabricated his personal death, in part, to avoid his outstanding little one help responsibilities," prosecutors mentioned.Kipf was actually imprisoned in November and also pleaded bad in April to government fees of aggravated identification fraud and computer system fraud. He was actually sentenced in U.S. Area Court in Greater London on Monday.Kipf separated in 2008 as well as he was actually released to Iraq for almost a year between 2007 and also 2008, depending on to court documents.He must pay for more than $195,000 in restoration for damages to personal computer systems and the staying total of his youngster help, the government said.Advertisement. Scroll to proceed reading.