Director Carl Rinsch Sentenced to Prison After Scamming Netflix

Carl Rinsch, 47 Ronin director, has been sentenced to 30 months of prison for scamming Netflix out of millions of dollars. He was hired for the never-completed television series White Horse and spent $11 million on cryptocurrency, luxury cars, furniture, and mattresses in two months. The streamer originally paid him $44 million to create the show, and then he asked Netflix for $11 million to complete additional episodes. “I made a mistake,” Rinsch said in the courtroom, per Variety. “This process has forced me to confront things about myself that I never fully understood before.” He spent $2.4 million on five Rolls Royces and a red Ferrari and at least $1.7 million on credit card bills — I wonder how many Chase points that kind of bill adds up to.

Keanu Reeves came to Rinsch’s defense last month, asking the judge for leniency in the case. “In my opinion, Carl can self-sabotage by amplifying the scale, scope, and landscape of what had been negotiated, accordingly placing himself and his counterparties at odds,” he wrote. “I do not intend to share this as a diminishment of what he has been found to have done, but offer this solely as perhaps an insight into why.”