Carl Rinsch , a director best known for the film “47 Ronin,” is facing up to 90 years in prison after being convicted Thursday of scamming Netflix out of $11 million and using the cash to fund his lavish lifestyle.
A federal jury in Manhattan needed only a few hours to deliver a guilty verdict against Rinsch , who bilked the streaming service out of millions of dollars while claiming he needed more money to finish the sci-fi series “White Horse/Conquest” after blowing through its initial $44 million budget, before the project was outright canceled.
Rinsch, 48, testified during the one-week trial that the cash was to pay himself back for his own money he’d put into the series.
Instead, he consolidated that money into a brokerage account before unsuccessfully making “a number of

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