{"id":735063,"date":"2026-06-30T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/735063\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:32:09","slug":"director-carl-rinsch-sentenced-to-2-5-years-in-prison-after-keanu-reeves-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/735063\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Carl Rinsch sentenced to 2.5 years in prison after Keanu Reeves letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Rinsch, the director convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/29\/hollywood\/director-found-guilty-of-bilking-netflix-for-11m-faces-decade-plus-in-prison\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defrauding Netflix out of $11 million last year<\/a> for an original sci-fi series \u201cWhite Horse,\u201d was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d faced up to 9\u00a0years behind bars, but no one expected his sentence to be anywhere near that.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"9024598\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rick-genest-keanu-reeves-ref-132402389.jpg\" alt=\"Keanu Reeves\" class=\"wp-image-9024598\"  \/>Carl Rinsch directed Keanu Reeves in \u201c47 Ronin.\u201d H2f Entertainment\/Mid Atlantic Films\/Mpc\/Stuber Productions\/Kobal \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The judge, Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York also sentenced the 48-year old to 3 years of supervised release, plus $11 million in forfeiture and a $700 fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Rinsch addressed the court apologizing and accepting responsibility for his actions. <\/p>\n<p>Keanu Reeves, who worked with Rinsch on the 2013 film \u201c47 Ronin,\u201d wrote a letter of support ahead of the director\u2019s sentencing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rinsch was found guilty of wire fraud, money laundering and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity concerning the money he received from Netflix. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66710098;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"9022361\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/keanu-reeves-dogstar-performs-onstage-130636212.jpg\" alt=\"Keanu \" class=\"wp-image-9022361\"  \/>Keanu Reeves wrote a letter of support for the director.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Rinsch was found to have diverted those funds into a personal account which he then spent on speculative crypto trading, and a personal spending spree.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Rinsch declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Rinsch, the director convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million last year for an original sci-fi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,8679,2858,2302,88,1506,10490,9746,217,152149],"class_list":["post-735063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-court","tag-courts","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-keanu-reeves","tag-law","tag-netflix","tag-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}