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Netflix Gets Fall Trial Start Against Director Who Allegedly Scammed $11M Out Of Streamer


Netflix may never see the $11M the streamer & the feds say Carl Rinsch owes them, but they will see the director in court later this year

In a hearing Thursday in federal court NYC Carl Rinsch entered a not guilty plea and Judge Jed S. Rakoff put a September 8, 2025 trial start date on the calendar. Indicted by the Department of Justice on March 18 for fraud, and “engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity,” Rinsch is out on a $100,000 bond that he posted earlier this month. Coming off the flop of 2013’s 47 Ronin but armed with the friendship and backing of of Keanu Reeves, once prominent commercial director Rinsch found himself and the show then known as White Horse in the middle of a bidding war in 2018.

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