• Carl Erik Rinsch, charged with wire fraud and money laundering, goes on trial Tuesday in Manhattan. • The feds say he defrauded Netflix out of $11 million for a never-finished sci-fi series. • Prosecutors say Rinsch spent Netflix's money on cars, crypto, and $638,000 for mattresses.

He's taking it to the $638,000 mattresses.

Filmmaker Carl Erik Rinsch is going to trial in Manhattan, fighting charges that he defrauded Netflix out of $11 million — money prosecutors say was conditioned on his delivering a humans-versus-clones sci-fi series he ultimately never completed.

Rinsch spent the money on himself instead, prosecutors say, using it to pay off his debts and splurge on luxury cars and furnishings, including two mattresses that together cost $648K.

Openings in the colorful case a

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