Man who faked death to avoid $100,000 in child support gets six years in prison

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Man who faked death to avoid $100,000 in child support gets six years in prison
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After registering as deceased person, Jesse Kipf of Kentucky then hacked death registry systems and sold access to them

Kipf’s sentence closes the book on one of the stranger hacking cases seen in the US criminal justice system.Kipf’s sentence closes the book on one of the stranger hacking cases seen in the US criminal justice system.while attempting to avoid paying more than $100,000 in child support that he owed to his ex-wife has been ordered to spend more than six years in federal prison.

According to court papers that he endorsed with his signature, the 39-year-old Kipf accessed the Hawaii state government’s computer registry of dead people in early 2023, impersonated a medical certifier and falsely certified that he had died as he sought to skimp on child support obligations to his former wife.

Kipf’s buyers came from countries such as Algeria, Russia and Ukraine, court filings asserted. His scheme eventually went awry, and after being criminally charged, he finalized a plea deal with federal prosecutors in April that left him facing up to seven years in prison.

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