Hollywood director Carl Rinsch has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after defrauding Netflix of roughly $11 million (£8.3 million), with a letter from actor Keanu Reeves and evidence of the filmmaker's mental health struggles helping secure a shorter sentence.
The 48-year-old director, best known for '47 Ronin,' was sentenced on Monday in a federal court in New York after being convicted in December of wire fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors had asked for a five-year prison term, while federal sentencing guidelines suggested as much as nine to 11 years because of the scale of the fraud.
