{"id":622500,"date":"2026-07-01T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/47-ronin-director-who-gambled-netflix-funds-on-crypto-gets-30-months\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:53:00","slug":"47-ronin-director-who-gambled-netflix-funds-on-crypto-gets-30-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/47-ronin-director-who-gambled-netflix-funds-on-crypto-gets-30-months\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201847 Ronin\u2019 director who gambled Netflix funds on crypto gets 30 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/arrest-police-crime-prison-jail-imprisonment-man-person2.jpg\" alt=\"\u201847 Ronin\u2019 director who gambled Netflix funds on crypto gets 30 months\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carl Rinsch will serve two and a half years in prison for taking money meant for a Netflix show to buy Dogecoin, stocks and luxury goods.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood director Carl Rinsch has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for defrauding Netflix out of $11 million, which he spent on crypto, stocks and luxury goods.<\/p>\n<p>A Manhattan federal court on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/69751190\/united-states-v-rinsch\/?filed_after=&amp;filed_before=&amp;entry_gte=&amp;entry_lte=&amp;order_by=desc#minute-entry-469332012\">sentenced<\/a> Rinsch, known for directing the 2013 film \u201c47 Ronin,\u201d starring Keanu Reeves, to 30 months in prison after he was convicted in December on charges including fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRinsch orchestrated a scheme to steal millions by seeking $11 million from a subscription streaming service, falsely claiming that money would be used to finance a television show that he was creating,\u201d Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/los-angeles-director-and-writer-sentenced-prison-11-million-production-fraud\">said<\/a> in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/47-ronin-director-who-gambled-netflix-funds-on-crypto-gets-30-months\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Rinsch will serve two and a half years in prison for taking money meant for a Netflix show to buy Dogecoin, stocks and luxury goods. Hollywood director Carl Rinsch has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for defrauding Netflix out of $11 million, which he spent on crypto, stocks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-622500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}