Carl Rinsch, the director convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million final yr for an authentic sci-fi collection “White Horse,” was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail on Monday.
He’d confronted as much as 9 years behind bars, however nobody anticipated his sentence to be anyplace close to that.
The choose, Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York additionally sentenced the 48-year previous to three years of supervised launch, plus $11 million in forfeiture and a $700 wonderful.
In response to stories, Rinsch addressed the courtroom apologizing and accepting duty for his actions.
Keanu Reeves, who labored with Rinsch on the 2013 movie “47 Ronin,” wrote a letter of assist forward of the director’s sentencing.
Rinsch was discovered responsible of wire fraud, cash laundering and interesting in financial transactions in property derived from specified illegal exercise in regards to the cash he obtained from Netflix.
Rinsch was discovered to have diverted these funds into a private account which he then spent on speculative crypto buying and selling, and a private spending spree.
A lawyer for Rinsch declined to remark.
