Carl Rinsch, the director of “47 Ronin,” was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison, receiving half of the government’s recommended sentence after Judge Jed Rakoff considered evidence of his mental health struggles from Keanu Reeves and other character witnesses.
In December, a jury convicted Rinsch of wire fraud and money laundering charges after prosecutors proved he defrauded Netflix out of roughly $11 million during production of the never-completed sci-fi series “White Horse,” also known as “Conquest.” Rather than finishing the ambitious project, Rinsch gambled much of the money in the cryptocurrency market before spending millions more on luxury purchases.
“I made a mistake,” Rinsch told the judge inside a Lower Manhattan courtroom before sentencing. “This process has forced me to confront things about myself that I never fully understood…
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