“Today’s sentence sends a deterrent message: fraud will not be tolerated,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her ...
Hollywood director Carl Erik Rinsch was convicted on Thursday of defrauding Netflix out of $11 milion (£8.2m) for a science fiction show that never got made. A federal jury in Manhattan found Rinsch ...
What changed between Rinsch’s trial and sentencing — and ultimately appeared to influence Rakoff’s analysis — was the introduction of evidence surrounding the director’s mental well-being, which the ...