Carl Erik Rinsch, director of 47 Roninwas billed for having frauded a streaming service over $ 11 million, according to the South district of the New York American lawyer. Although the court documents did not appoint the service, a former report of The New York Times It is obvious that it was none other than Netflix. In 2018, Rinsch launched a science fiction series called White horseReferring to the first rider of the Apocalypse, several services, namely Amazon, Apple, HBO, Hulu, Netflix and Youtube. Time ‘ The report indicates that Amazon had already won the auction war, but the former Netflix vice-president of the original content, Cindy Holland, called Rinsch for a weekend and offered millions of others, as well as the privilege of making a director of a director.
In his announcement of the indictment, the American prosecutor’s office explained that Netflix had paid $ 44 million for the development of White Horse, which had been renamed ConquestBetween 2018 and 2019. Part of this money was over to reimburse the first investors in the project. (Keanu Reeves, the star of 47 RoninPlaced his own money into the project after Rinsch was in trouble with 30West, one of the first investors of the project, for not having reached a deadline.) Between the end of 2019 and early 2020, Rinsch asked Netflix to finance more, and the company gave it $ 11 million more to finish the series. But Rinsch never finished the show, and Netflix accused him of using these funds to do "Personal and speculative purchases of securities."
The director would have lost most of the $ 11 million in negotiations, but he returned and won more by investing the rest in the cryptocurrency. Rinsch would have made a shopping trip after that, spending nearly $ 4 million in furniture and antiques, $ 2.4 million out of five Rolls-ryces and a Ferrari, as well as $ 652,000 in luxury watches and clothing. The indictment also said that Rinsch had spent more than a million dollars to continue Netflix for more money. According to Time ‘ Report, Rinsch said in his trial that Netflix broke his contract and had several additional payments worth $ 14 million. In the midst of all these elements, Rinsch would have displayed erratic behavior: he allegedly discovered that the secret mechanism of the transmission of COVID-19, horribly treated the staff of the show and accused his wife of having plotted his assassination.
Conquest was supposed to be a genius that invented a human species called intelligent organic. These Ois are deployed to solve problems and provide humanitarian aid around the world, but they are of course not what they seem and hide a darker nature. Rinsch was accused of a thread chief of fraud and a silver laundering chief, who both bear a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. He was also charged with five counts of participation in monetary transactions in goods from a specified illegal activity, each chief comprising a maximum sentence of 10 years.
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